Nepal Under the Ranas

November 21, 1981 the misbehaviour of production functions. Unfortunately we cannot if we love AT. We have earlier observed that in the Boon situation, the very growth of markets will favour mechanisation. And if mechanisation is not scale-dependent, less mechanised techniques can survive only on the basis of lower wages and higher prices (as handlooms do in. India); if wage and product markets become more integrated, less mechanised techniques will decline.