In social and economic life, we now see the ubiquity of self-reinforcing processes which display multiple equilibria, path dependence (sensitivity to initial conditions), and lock-in effects.

• 在社会和经济生活中，我们看到自我加固的过程普遍存在，它表现出多种均衡、路径依赖（对初始条件的敏感性）和占据影响。