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Our developing scientific understanding of complex networks is being usefully applied in a wide set of financial systems. What we've learned from the 2008 crisis could be the basis of better management of the economy — and a means to avert future disaster.

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Catanzaro, M., Buchanan, M. Network opportunity. Nature Phys 9, 121–123 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2570

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