SPPA Professor Graeme Auld and his colleague Professor Stefan Renckens (University of Toronto) published an entry in the Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Their entry discusses the term path dependence, which captures situations where early chance or choice events constrain future options.
DOI10.4337/9781788974912.P.9
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