Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy.

Intro -- 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.