When states specialize in producing the goods that they produce best and trading for goods that other states are better at producing, they are operating according to __________

A) the comparative advantage
B) the absolute advantage
C) transaction costs
D) patterns of trade


Answer: A

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A) Tumblr B) Vine C) ?Snapchat D) Facebook E) ?Twitter

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a. began to show an increase in the productivity of the American economy only as recently as the mid-1990s. b. has not yet registered an increase in the productivity of the American economy. c. did not spark a measureable increase in the American economy until the late1980s. d. may not have effects that are measureable in terms of changes in economic productivity. e. has not increased the competitiveness of the American economy over less-developed economies with lower wage costs.

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A. polarization. B. electoral coordination. C. political ideology. D. party sorting. E. partisanship.

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