disequilibrate

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To understand them we shouldn't depart from the micro-analytics, the way people respond to incentives, the way markets equilibrate and disequilibrate, theories of creative destruction.

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  1. transitive verb To upset the equilibrium of (the economy, for example); unbalance.

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  • To understand them we shouldn't depart from the micro-analytics, the way people respond to incentives, the way markets equilibrate and disequilibrate, theories of creative destruction. —  Library of Economics and Liberty
  • That by itself would be enough to disequilibrate chavismo power and break his current majority. —  Venezuela News And Views
  • The incident served to disequilibrate, as one might say, the two discussions on Wilmot and Abyssinia. —  Jaffery
 

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/dɪsikwɪˈlaɪbreɪt/
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