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  2. Comparative advantage - Wikipedia

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    Comparative advantage in an economic model is the advantage over others in producing a particular good. A good can be produced at a lower relative opportunity cost or autarky price, i.e. at a lower relative marginal cost prior to trade. [1] Comparative advantage describes the economic reality of the work gains from trade for individuals, firms ...

  3. International trade theory - Wikipedia

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    Comparative advantage is the first law in the basic laws of trade. At the international level, the basic laws require real exchange rates for tradables only (RER-T). The basic laws state that if the actual exchange rate is the same as the RER-T, then trade between countries tends to be relatively balanced and gains of trade are optimal for all ...

  4. Ricardian economics - Wikipedia

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    According to the Washington Council on International Trade, comparative advantage is the ability to produce a good at a lower cost, relative to other goods, compared to another country. In the Principles of Economics , Ricardo states that comparative advantage is a specialization technique used to create more efficient production (52) and ...

  5. David Ricardo - Wikipedia

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    The term "comparative advantage" was introduced by J. S. Mill and his contemporaries. John Stuart Mill started a neoclassical turn of international trade theory, i.e. his formulation was inherited by Alfred Marshall and others, and has both contributed to the resurrection of the anti-Ricardian concept of law of supply and demand, and induced ...

  6. Heckscher–Ohlin model - Wikipedia

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    The comparative advantage is due to the fact that nations have various factors of production, the endowment of factors is the number of resources such as land, labor, and capital that a country has. Countries are endowed with multiple factors which explains the difference in the costs of a particular factor when a cheaper factor is more abundant.

  7. Absolute advantage - Wikipedia

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    Economics. In economics, the principle of absolute advantage is the ability of a party (an individual, or firm, or country) to produce a good or service more efficiently than its competitors. [1] [2] The Scottish economist Adam Smith first described the principle of absolute advantage in the context of international trade in 1776, using labor ...

  8. Competitive advantage - Wikipedia

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    In business, a competitive advantage is an attribute that allows an organization to outperform its competitors.. A competitive advantage may include access to natural resources, such as high-grade ores or a low-cost power source, highly skilled labor, geographic location, high entry barriers, and access to new technology and to proprietary information.

  9. Comparative law - Wikipedia

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    Purpose. Comparative law is an academic discipline that involves the study of legal systems, including their constitutive elements and how they differ, [6] and how their elements combine into a system. Several disciplines have developed as separate branches of comparative law, including comparative constitutional law, comparative administrative ...