ECO 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Trade Adjustment Assistance, Absolute Advantage, Comparative Advantage

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Specialization means that a country devotes its energies and resources to only a small proportion of the world"s productive activities. Mutual gains from trade: trade is a win-win situation, voluntary exchange. The many currencies involved in international trade. Impediments to mobility of labor and capital. Absolute advantage- over another in the production of a particular good if it can produce that good using smaller quantities of resources than can the other country. Comparative advantage-over another in the production of a particular good relative to other goods if it produces that good less inefficiently as compared with the other country. Gains from international trade still exist even if one country is more efficient than the other in producing everything. When every country does what it can do best, all countries can benefit because more of every commodity can be produced without increasing the amounts of labor and other resources used.

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The law of comparative advantage states that:

a. each country should specialize in producing the good with the lowest opportunity cost.

b. a country that is able to produce something using fewer resources than other countries would gain from specialization and trade.

c. international trade barriers slow the introduction of new goods and better technologies.

d. countries can gain from trade if production is subject to economies of scale.

e. countries must agree on how much of one good exchanges for another.

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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.

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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.

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