Comparative advantage is an economic term that describes doing what you do best, and leveraging that against what you don’t do so well. World economies depend on the outcome. Comparison advantage is ...

For the best part of two centuries, the principle of “comparative advantage” has been a foundation stone of economists’ understanding of international trade, both of why it occurs in the first place ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

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Simply sign up to the German economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Michael Pettis is a Beijing-based associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In a New York Times ...