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Social Sciences and History / Unit 16   SSH 1524 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Comparative Advantage: Micro, Macro, Geography

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The idea

Microeconomics defines comparative advantage from a table at 1210. Macroeconomics applies it to trade at 1425 and computes it at 1429. Geography's 1038 poses the two paths, international trade or self-sufficiency, that the concept decides. Three entries, one arithmetic.

In practice

Lower opportunity cost, not bigger output.

Where people slip

The computation is unit 15's.

Your place on the trail

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