Effect of Technological Improvement on the Average Product of Labor in the Malthusian Model
Within the Malthusian model, an improvement in agricultural technology, such as the seventeenth-century introduction of a new, more efficient plough from China to England, increases the average product of labor at every level of labor input. Graphically, this technological advance is represented by an upward shift of the entire average product of labor curve.
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