Imperial peace, both in ancient Rome and in other eras, was in a paradoxical way a cause of social and cultural dislocation.

ECONOMIST: The origins of Christianity

Now, with a dwindling tax base and growing worries about the social effects of wrenching economic dislocation, it is allowed to spend more than it earns on job-creation schemes and infrastructure.

ECONOMIST: The Thai slump

At the spring Game Developers Conference in San Francisco Nintendo President Satoru Iwata did not mention Apple once in his keynote speech and alluded to social gaming as pulling down the quality of gaming into a low-cost industry that may result in the dislocation of top game designers into the street.

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