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LAW OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: A basic principle that states every nation has a production activity that incurs a lower opportunity cost than that of another nation, which means that trade between the two nations can be beneficial to both if each specializes in the production of a good with lower relative opportunity cost. While this law is fundamental to the study of international trade, it also applies to other activities, especially the specialization and the division of labor.
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RECESSIONARY GAP The difference between the equilibrium real production achieved in the short-run aggregate market and full-employment real production that occurs when short-run equilibrium real production is less than full-employment real production. A recessionary gap, also termed a contractionary gap, is associated with a business-cycle contraction. This is one of two alternative output gaps that can occur when short-run equilibrium generates production that differs from full employment. The other is an inflationary gap.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time driving to a factory outlet seeking to buy either a New York Yankees baseball cap or a solid oak entertainment center. Be on the lookout for letters from the Internal Revenue Service. Your Complete Scope
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The average length of a "business lunch" is about 36 minutes.
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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president
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