552 PONTIFICIAE ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARVM SCRIPTA VARIA - 28 FIGURE 3-c when 7° exceeds r. (Similarly, a new technological meth- od of the capital-saving type is not adopted when 7° falls short of 7). When #° belongs to the perverse part of the curve pe’, however, we obtain the following result: A technological improvement of the labour-saving type yields an increase in y but a decrease in 7 if <7, and vice versa. Thus, either y or 7 increases, so that the biased technological change may be adopted, irrespective of the relation of #° to 7. The following argument is independent of the location of #° and its relation to ». Let us normalize the voN NEUMANN output configuration x° so as to make the i-th component of x°P° (i.e. x°vP) equal 1. It follows from (39) that before the technical change we have —) Ï ” > L(a;, + D, = =7) n > Les — aj; + b;; + Ci 3=7 Li-1I, 141, ..., 0), ‘ 19] Morishima - pag. 24