Principles of Macroeconomics / Unit 17 MAC 1602 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Absolute Advantage
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The idea
A country has an absolute advantage in a good when it can produce more of it from the same resources. That can come from more resources, more productive ones, or natural endowment.
In practice
Oil reserves, farmland, a climate that suits coffee, ore in the ground.
Where people slip
Neither book's witness names this concept, so the definition here rests on the anchor alone.
Your place on the trail
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