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free trade - Correct Answer-a situation in which a government does not attempt to
influence through quotas or duties what its citizens can buy from another country or
what they can produce and sell to another country
comparative advantage - Correct Answer-the intellectual basis of modern argument for
unrestricted free trade
David Ricardo - Correct Answer-comparative advantage
Heckscher-Ohlin Theory - Correct Answer-The theory that a country will export goods
that make intensive use of the factors of production in which it is well endowed. Thus, a
labor-rich country will export goods that make intensive use of labor.
New trade theory - Correct Answer-countries specialize in the production and export of
particular products not because of underlying differences in factor endowments, but
because in certain industries the world market can support only a limited number of
firms
Paul Krugman - Correct Answer-New trade theory
Micheal Porter - Correct Answer-Theory of national competitive advantage
Mercantillism - Correct Answer-a country should sell more goods to another country
than it buys
zero-sum game - Correct Answer-a situation in which an economic gain by one country
results in an economic loss by another
absolute advantage - Correct Answer-the ability to produce a good using fewer inputs
than another producer
production possibilities frontier - Correct Answer-the line on a production possibilities
graph that shows the maximum possible output
comparative advantage - Correct Answer-potential world production is greater with
unrestricted free trade than with restricted trade
Constant Returns to Specialization - Correct Answer-The units of resources required to
produce a good are assumed to remain constant no matter where one is on a country's
production possibility frontier.