ECO2023 DAVID RICARDO & THE COMARATIVE AND ABSOLUTE ADVANTAGE David Ricardo was one of those rare people who achieved both tremendous success and lasting fame. After his family disinherited him for marrying outside his Jewish faith‚ Ricardo made a fortune as a stockbroker and loan broker. When he died‚ his estate was worth more than $100 million in today’s dollars. At age twenty-seven‚ after reading Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations‚ Ricardo got excited about economics. He wrote his first
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Executive Theory is an interpretation that the President is the sole authority of the Executive Branch. The Founders of the nation decided that a unitary executive to be the preeminent choice rather than a plural executive or committee system. This is not a collectively held theory as many believe that the powers expressed from this theory to be excessive and that congress has the authority to hold presidential power in check due to the checks and balances system. Supporters of the theory use Article
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Review exercises on Ricardo’s model 1. Consider two countries‚ Argentina and Brazil‚ with Ricardian economies whose endowments and technologies are those described below. Each has a fixed endowment of labor – its only factor of production – and can produce two things‚ manufactured goods M and services S‚ using the indicated constant amounts of labor per unit of output: Per-unit labor requirement for producing Endowment of Labor Argentina Brazil 200 600 M 1 1.5 S 2 4 a) Draw the production possibility
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My comparative advantage in the labor market is as a Senior Administrative Assistant. The understanding of the duties of a Senior Administrative Assistant is often misunderstood to be a non-specialized occupation that doesn’t require any expertise. Presently‚ the administrative assistant job market is changing drastically due to employment trends which require a broadening and expanding of the functions and obligations of an administrative assistant. “Because of new technology‚ the administrative
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Demands of the question 10 marks (paper 2) 20 minutes on it Explain the law of diminishing returns using average and marginal product curves Definition Law of diminishing returns refer to how the marginal production of a factor of production starts to progressively decrease as the factor is increased‚ in contrast to the increase that would otherwise be normally expected. Triple A Law of diminishing returns – as more and more of a variable factor is added to a fixed factor‚ output will
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What are the differences between absolute advantage and comparative advantage? Absolute advantage and comparative advantage are two basic concepts to international trade and perhaps two most important concepts in international trade theory. Under absolute advantage‚ one country can produce more output per unit of productive input than another. With comparative advantage‚ if one country has an absolute (dis)advantage in every type of output‚ the other might benefit from specializing in and exporting
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Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility’ A law of economics stating that as a person increases consumption of a product - while keeping consumption of other products constant - there is a decline in the marginal utility that person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product. EXPLANATION This is the premise on which buffet-style restaurants operate. They entice you with "all you can eat‚" all the while knowing each additional plate of food provides less utility than the one before
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What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Theory X And Theory Y? Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y have both their advantages and disadvantages‚ though many would prefer to call them their strengths and weaknesses. The biggest advantage of using Theory X and Theory Y is that they are easy to understand. In addition to this‚ they can help a manager to focus on his thoughts on the different ways in which individuals relate to and carry out work. Although the theories are not used explicitly
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Final Exam Practice Questions Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Assume that Greece has a comparative advantage in fish and Germany has a comparative advantage in cars. Also assume that Germany has an absolute advantage in both fish and cars. If these two countries specialize and trade so as to maximize the benefits of specialization and trade‚ then |a. |the two countries’ combined output of both goods will be higher than
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Explain how the law of diminishing returns and returns to scale affect a firm’s cost of production (20 Marks) The law of diminishing returns exist when increasing quantities of a variable input are combined with a fixed input‚ which eventually leads to the marginal product and the average product of that variable input will decline. Diminishing returns can affect a firms cost of production negatively in the short run. An example of this is that a business had 2 factors of production; Capital‚ which
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