Absolute Advantage Theory Flashcards
The cost incurred in producing an additional unit of product.
Marginal Cost
He is the founder of modern economics and considered the father of economics.
Adam Smith
It means that a producer can produce a good or service in greater quantity for the same cost or the same quantity at lower marginal cost
Absolute advantage
It is also called Free market economy or free enterprise economy.
Capitalism
Is an economic system where most means of production are privately owned and production is distributed through the operation of markets, w/c determine prices, products and services.
Capitalism
Believes that countries should produce and export such products which they have an absolute advantage on and import those goods where they do not have.
Theory of Absolute Advantage
A doctrine states that a nation can exchange its overproduction for other goods which are in demand in other countries, which will result in the fullest utilization of the idle productive capacity.
Vent of surplus
Free trade promotes international division of labor through _________ in the production and exchange of such commodities.
Specialization
Specialization increases ___________ through technical and organizational innovations.
Productivity
A measure of the income generated in a production process, is value of outputs minus the value of inputs
Net Product