Academic grounding
David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, Ch. 7 (1817)
Comparative Advantage
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💡 The Core Proposition
Countries gain from trade by specialising where their opportunity cost is lowest, even if worse at everything.
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