6 C.  Relationship between prices and wages  Naturally, the next question is why services prices have hardly been adjusted. In general, services are labor intensive, and so wages account for a greater weight in the production cost.
As Mokyr observes with respect to Britain, the right combination of artisanal skills and scientific knowledge is more highly structured: A purely artisanal-knowledge society will eventually revert to a technological equilibrium, in contrast to a society where the world of artisans is constantly shocked by infusions of new knowledge from outsiders.