Advanced Macro & Growth · intermediate
What moves on the Malthusian Growth Model diagram
With land fixed, a smaller population raises output per person, the Malthusian logic behind post-plague wage booms.
The economy is trapped at subsistence.
A plague kills a third of the population, survivors farm the BEST land with more land each.
Income per head RISES. The Black Death's grim lesson: in a Malthusian world, fewer people means richer people… until population recovers.
Examiners ask this as: black death wages, plague population income.
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