Tag: free-trade

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• Chapter 3: The Emergence of Free Trade and the Importance of Comparative Advantage — Economics 101

  Why specialization plus exchange beats self-sufficiency — even when one party is better at producing everything. This chapter walks through mercantilism’s failure, Adam Smith’s case for free trade, and David Ricardo’s deeper insight: it is comparative advantage (lowest opportunity cost), not absolute advantage, that determines who should produce what.

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• comparative-advantage
• absolute-advantage
• mercantilism
• specialization
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• david-ricardo