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One of the questions Thomas Schelling—who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005—dug into was the enigma why segregation occurs. In his widely cited article, Schelling (1971) observed:
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Mandl, C.E. (2019). Path Dependence: Segregation, Increasing Returns, Success to the Successful. In: Managing Complexity in Social Systems. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01645-6_20
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