We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual…

The U.S. tends to export high-tech goods because we have strong comparative advantage there, and we tend to import labor-intensive and less skill-intensive goods…

— David Autor

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose…

— Robert Kuttner

In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade…

— Robert Gilpin

A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions…

— John Stossel

Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was…

— Paul Samuelson

The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

— John Podhoretz

The fact that global savers accommodate U.S. consumers by keeping U.S. interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and the dollar stronger than…

— John H. Makin

United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's good at.…

— Noam Chomsky

Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I always believe…

— Joseph Stiglitz

In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs.…

— Julia Gillard

Firms gain comparative advantage from how good their people are. Retaining and attracting talent is a key point of competitive advantage in the global…

— Scott Morrison

Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can specialize in…

— David Autor

It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured…

— David Ricardo