The first edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics by David A. Moss was published in 2007—just as one of the world's great economic downturns was taking off. The second edition has just been ...

A comparative advantage means having the lowest cost of producing a product. Numerous factors contribute to comparative advantage. Having a comparative advantage allows a company to lower prices on ...

Hi. I'm Jackie Jackson, and I'm going to talk to you about comparative advantage and economies of scale. Now these are two items that a company will examine when they're determining whether or not ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! The House Agriculture Committee hears testimony on how food production would be affected by the adoption of a North American Free Trade Agreement, ...

In a war, the wise general will often manage to take the high ground in order to gain a superior position against the enemy. By gaining the advantage of gravity, such a distinction can often be enough ...

Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 16, No. 4 (December 2001), pp. 568-589 (22 pages) In this paper pattern of Pakistan's exports, comparative advantage of exports, Complementarity and commodity ...

DURING the 1990s, the concept of comparative advantage served as the economic foundation for agricultural production, guiding the cultivation of crops and livestock. At the time, economists emphasised ...

I think we will all happily take, as a sterling standard of impossibility, the idea of my ever winning a Nobel in anything. Even the Peace Prize which has been offered to some pretty odd people over ...

It has become conventional wisdom that America's manufacturing base is withering in the face of foreign competition. Problems at GM and bankrupt auto parts manufacturer Delphi would seem to bear that ...

In textbook economics, trade is a win-win: Two countries trade freely based on comparative advantage and share the resulting gains, improving welfare in both countries. America’s trade with China is ...