According to Thomas Robert Malthus,the Wage Rate Would Be Depressed

question 4

Multiple Choice

According to Thomas Robert Malthus,the wage rate would be depressed to the subsistence level because of

• A)the power of monopolies.
• B)the desire of capitalists to exploit the working class.
• C)the natural tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the production of food.
• D)the long-run downward trend in investment.
• E)pestilence,war,and faminE.

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