# Prof. Michael Spence's op-ed on economic growth is highlighted

1 Faculty News January 13, 2015 ![Haaretz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035747.gif?itok=OEWzuIof)>

Excerpt from [Haaretz](http://www.haaretz.com/business/.premium-1.636780) -- "In a recent article [Michael Spence](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/a-michael-spence), a Nobel Prize-winning economist who studied the issue of competition between states, identified five reasons for slow growth since the 2008 global financial crisis, as follows."

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