Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Absolute and comparative advantage are economic concepts that help ...

Mary Hall is a editor for Investopedia's Advisor Insights, in addition to being the editor of several books and doctoral papers. Mary received her bachelor's in English from Kent State University with ...

Goldmoney Head of Research, Alasdair Macleod sheds light on the law of comparative advantage. In this short video, I want to explain why it is a mistake to think that foreign trade might be unfair. We ...

David Ricardo published "On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" on April 19 1817. This is the work that described the principle of comparative advantage and thus explained to us all why ...

I think we will all happily take, as a sterling standard of impossibility, the idea of my ever winning a Nobel in anything. Even the Peace Prize which has been offered to some pretty odd people over ...

Comparative advantage is an economic term that describes doing what you do best, and leveraging that against what you don’t do so well. World economies depend on the outcome. Comparison advantage is ...

SADLY, the article is behind The Atlantic's paywall, but Clive Crook's essay on the the puzzle of why scepticism about free trade seems to be waxing despite the fact that there is no new theory or ...