Imagine That You Could Travel Back in Time to Another

question 27

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you could travel back in time to another era, bringing with you all the knowledge you have from the modern age. Your wage in the older era might be higher because people with your knowledge were in short supply then. But why might your wage also be lower?

• A) because in bygone eras the economy was less productive overall
• B) no one would believe that you were from the future
• C) because in bygone eras, economics had not been invented yet
• D) because in bygone eras, people were more productive than they are today