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ECN 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Import Quota, North American Free Trade Agreement, Offshore Outsourcing

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Ryerson University
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Economics
Course
ECN 104
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John Isbister

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Ecn 104 chapter 8 international trade week 6 march 9 th 2016. Comparative advantage and international trade: goods and services purchased from other countries are imports; goods and services sold to other countries are exports, globalization is the phenomenon of growing economic linkages among countries. To understand why international trade occurs and why economists believe it is beneficial to the economy, we will first review the concept of comparative advantage. The following graph illustrates the growing importance of international trade. Figure 8-1: the growing importance of global trade. Panel (a) illustrates the fact that over the past 50 years, canada has exported a growing share of its gdp to other countries and imported a growing share of what it consumes. Panel (b) demonstrates that international trade is more important to some countries than it is to canada. Portugal, and portugal produces wine more efficiently than england, then the countries should specialize, and trade their surplus: david ricardo: comparative advantage.

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Discuss and explain the difference between the two.

The principle upon which Adam Smith first claimed that free trade benefits all countries. It holds that a country benefits from trade when it produces a particular good at a lower cost (in terms of labor input) than it costs to produce the good in any other country. By specializing the in the production and export of this good and importing goods whose production costs are higher than in other countries, the country can consume more of both goods. In trade theories, this principle was later replaced by the principle of comparative advantages.

Comparative Advantage is first fully stated by David Ricardo in the early nineteenth century, this concept holds that a country has a comparative advantage in a good if it can produce that good more cheaply than it can produce other goods. By specializing in the production of goods in which it holds a comparative advantage and importing the other goods, the country can consume more of all goods. In contrast to Adam Smith, therefore, this principle states that a country need not have an absolute advantage in any good to benefit from trade. The principle provides a powerful justification for liberal international trade by asserting that all countries benefit from such trade.

215. Economists examine pollution from the perspective of the:
A) preferences of people.
B) intensity and duration of the harm to resources.
C) desires of government bureaucrats.
D) intent of business firms in the maximization of profits.

212. Free trade is beneficial because it:
A) reduces competition.
B) leads to less use of the world's resources.
C) results in a wider array of consumer products.
D) leads to the production of free goods.

206. If a country has a comparative advantage in the production of a good:
A) it can produce that good at a lower opportunity cost.
B) it will find trade most beneficial when it trades with another country that has a comparative advantage in the same good.
C) it will not find trade beneficial because other countries won't have a comparative advantage in other goods.
D) it must also have an absolute advantage in the good.

203. Which of the following statements is true?
A) Nations have generally moved toward freer international trade policies over the past few decades.
B) Nations all over the world have recently raised trade barriers.
C) Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union countries have reduced trade in the last decade.
D) NAFTA lowered trade barriers between the United States and Mexico but raised them between the United States and Canada.

Mention if the following statements are true or false. Explain clearly why, using ideas and concepts.

a. Under free trade, one country gains at the expense of the other.

b. The theory of comparative advantage states that free trade benefits all countries.

c. The Neo-classical trade theory states that trade arises due to different amounts of labor and capital in a country.

d. The H-O theory states that trade arises due to different PPFs in a country.

e. Under free trade, prices fall, so trade becomes easier.

f. A country should not have any imports and should increase exports if it wants to increase its employment levels.

g. Adam Smith recommended very strong government regulation of trade.

h. A country with higher labor productivity than another country will have a comparative advantage in the production of all goods.

i. The Theory of absolute advantage explains producer and consumer equilibriums under free trade.

j. Developed countries do not gain under free trade with developing countries.