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Hey everyone, today we're solving problem 15 from chapter one of the textbook, which essentially asks us to explain how through international specialization and international trade, a nation can reduce opportunity cost of obtaining goods and get outside its ppc or production possibilities current.
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So our first step is going to be to understand what both of these terms mean.
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So for international specialization, basically, basically, it means directing domestic resources to output which a nation is highly efficient to produce it.
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That means, for example, a resource would be labor, so directing certain types of labors to focus on certain parts of creating an output in order to maximize efficiency.
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That is what international specialization entails.
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And then international trade basically involves exchange of these goods for goods produced abroad.
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So that's basically the definition of specialization and trade.
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And basically both of these will have the same effect as having more and better resources...