Tuesday, September 23, 2025

1.4 Comparative Advantage and Trade 🔄

🎯 Learning Targets
  • Define absolute advantage and comparative advantage
  • Determine (using data from PPCs or tables as appropriate) absolute and comparative advantage
  • Explain (using date from PPCs or tables as appropriate) how specialization according to comparative advantage with appropriate terms of trade can lead to gains from trade
  • Calculate (using data from PPCs or tables as appropriate) mutually beneficial terms of trade
⏰ What We Did
  • Discussed the answers to last week's "Absolute vs. Comparative Advantage" problem set
⚙️ Resources

📖 Corresponding Reading

💻 Homework