path dependence
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Noun[edit]
path dependence (usually uncountable, plural path dependences)
- (countable) A situation in which the outcome varies with the route taken.
- (uncountable, economics) The theory that a technological option selected by the market need not be the technologically best one, because of the traction obtained by an early-introduced, technologically inferior alternative option.
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a situation
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See also[edit]
- path dependence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia