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“Path Dependence” as a book category gathers works that explain how early choices, chance events, and initial conditions set self-reinforcing trajectories that shape and constrain later outcomes—often locking in technologies, institutions, markets, or cultural norms regardless of their optimality. These books unpack mechanisms like increasing returns, network effects, sunk and switching costs, institutional inertia, and feedback loops, and emphasize timing and critical junctures. Spanning economics, technology and standards, political science, law, urban planning, business strategy, and social change, they use vivid case studies to show why the past decisively structures the present and what it takes to redirect entrenched paths.

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