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Chapter 2
Cowen and Tabarrok
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Preferences | The value a person puts on a good or service. The reason trades occur is the seller has a lower value of the item they are selling than the buyer. |
| Autarky | A nation or person is economically self-sufficient. Produces all goods and services they consume |
| Absolute Advantage | the ability to produce the same good using fewer inputs than another produce |
| Productivity | in economics, measures output per unit of input, such as labor, capital or any other resource |
| PPF | shows all the combinations of goods that a country can produce given its productivity and supply of inputs |
| Comparative Advantage | the ability to produce a good with a lower opportunity cost |