xplain how technology can shift the supply curve to the right.

What will be an ideal response?


Technological change can lower the firm’s costs of production through productivity advances. These changes allow the firm to spend less on inputs and produce the same level of output. Because the firm can now produce the good at a lower cost, it will supply more of the good at each and every price—the supply curve shifts to the right.

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