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Clio and the Economics of QWERTY

American Economic Review (American Economic Association) · American Economic Review 75(2), May 1985, pp. 332–337

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    Under increasing returns to adoption, small early events can lock a market into one technology, including an inferior one, making later reversal costly.

    Locator: Arthur, abstract and section I; David, the QWERTY keyboard case

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