Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002
relatively static agrarian technology, and thus with the inevitable Law of Diminishing returns, had drive up grain prices during … fifteenth centuries led to a fall in grain prices. The drastic alteration in the land:labour ratio also led to a rise in real … wages and a fall in rents; and in general to rising living standards. This in turn led to a rise in relative prices for non …