David Ricardo's iron law of wages stated that

A) wages would rise as competition eliminated inefficient producers.
B) wages would decline as productivity drove prices down.
C) wages would fall when the population of workers increased.
D) wages would rise as workers organized into unions.
E) wages were irrelevant; only commodities like pig iron mattered.


C

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