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== History ==
== History ==
Embedded growth obligations became prevalent during the broad, technology-led economic growth following World War II.
Embedded Growth Obligations became prevalent during the stable, broadly distributed, technologically-led economic growth following World War II.


Historian of science [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Derek de Solla Price] first mapped embedded growth obligations in his 1961 book ''[[Science Since Babylon]]'', where he noticed that science was on an exponential trajectory that could not reasonably be sustained.
Physicist and historian of science [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Derek de Solla Price] first mapped embedded growth obligations in his 1961 book ''[[Science Since Babylon]]'', where he noticed that science was on an exponential trajectory that could not reasonably be sustained.


== Examples ==
== Examples ==