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Comparative Advantage
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Economics
Undergraduate 2
10/25/2015

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Term
Absolute Advantage
Definition
One person has an absolute advantage over another if he or she takes freer hours to perform a task than the other person.
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Comparative Advantage
Definition
One person has a comparative advantage over another person if his or her opportunity cost of performing a task is lower than the other person's opportunity cost.
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Production Possibilities Curve
Definition
A graph that describes the maximum amount of one good that can be produced for every possible level of production of the other good.
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Attainable Point
Definition
Any combination of goods that can be produced using currently available resources.
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Unattainable Point
Definition
Any combination of goods that cannot be produced using currently available resources.
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Inefficient Point
Definition
Any combination of goods for which currently available resources enable to increase in the production of one good without a reduction in the production of the other.
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Efficient Point
Definition
Any combination of goods for which currently available resources do not allow an increase in the production of one good without a reduction in the production of the other.
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Outsourcing
Definition
A term increasingly used to connote having services performed by low-wage workers overseas.
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