The Assumption That Population Growth Will Lead to a Fall

question 12

Multiple Choice

The assumption that population growth will lead to a fall in real GDP per person rate back to subsistence level is

• A) associated with Malthusians.
• B) central to the new growth theory.
• C) part of the neoclassical school of growth theory.
• D) accepted by all economists today.

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