The traditional society. This is a predominantly agricultural economy.
Unchanging technology places a ceiling on the level of attainable output
per head. This ceiling results from the fact that ‘the potentialities which
flow from modern science and technology are either not available or
not regularly and systematically applied’. These societies devote a very
high proportion of their resources to agriculture. They hardly trade by
sea except for food aid and the export of a few cash crops.