Assumptions
Three main assumptions of the Psychological Law are:
1.Normal Conditions: Firstly, the psychological law applies only under normal conditions and when there is no danger of war or cold war, depression, boom, political upheaval, revolution etc.
2.Psychological and Institutional Complex remains the same: It means that there is no change in the psychological and institutional complex, such as population, tastes and preferences, habits of the people, fashion, prices etc. except change in income.
3.Capitalist Economy based on Laissez- faire: The psychological law applies to free and prosperous economies and does not hold well in socialist and under-developed economies. This is because, in a free economy, the people can consume any kind of goods they want, according to their necessities and desires and also there is no interference of the government in the economic affairs.
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