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What is the theory behind international trade? Has globalization been good for the United States?

Address specialization and trade.
Address absolute advantages.
Address comparative advantages.

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What is the theory behind international trade? Has globalization been good for the United States?

Address specialization and trade.
Address absolute advantages.
Address comparative advantages.

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The theory behind international trade is that countries benefit from specializing on a few products and exchanging those products with other countries who have also specialized. For example, if a country A is able to produce shoes for 2 units of labor and another country B is able to produce shoes for 1 unit of labour, one can say that the second country B has an absolute advantage on the production of shoes because it takes then less resources ...

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