Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy

W. Brian Arthur



This book brings together Professor Arthur’s pioneering article and provide a comprehensive presentation of his exciting vision of an economics that incorporates increasing returns. After a decade of resistance from economists, these ideas are now being widely discussed and adopted, as Kenneth Arrow recounts in his foreword. In fundamental ways they are changing our views of the working economy.

Contets

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Positive Feedbacks in the Economy
2. Competing Tecnologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-in By Historical Small Events
3. Path-Dependent Processes and the Emergence of Macrostructure
4. Industy Location Patterns and the Importance of History
5. Information Contagion
6. Urban Systems And Historical Path Dependence
7. Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms in Economics
8. Path Dependence, Self-Reinforcement, and Human Learning
9. Strategic Pricing in Markets with Increasing Returns
10. Strong Laws for a Class of Path-Dependent Stochastic Processes

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