Thursday, May 18, 2017

Comparative Advantage


Specialization

  • Individuals and countries can be made better off if they will provide in what they have a comparative advantage and then trade with others for whatever else they want/need
Absolute advantage
  • Producer that can produce the most output or requires least amount of inputs(resources)
Comparative advantage
  • producer with the lowest opportunity cost
  • countries should trade if they have a relatively lower opportunity cost 
  • an output problem presents data as products produced given a set of resources
  • input problem presents data as amount of resources needed to produce a fixed amount of output
  • when identifying absolute advantage input problems change the scenario from who can produce a given product with the least amount of resources

1 comment:

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