Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Comparative Advantage Activity
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• Terry and Casey are roommates in an apartment.
• You want to determine whether they will be better off by doing their own work (being self-sufficient),
or specializing and trading with their roommate.
In 1 day, Terry com complete 6 loods of laundry or prepare 12 meals.
In 1 day, Casey can complete 2 loads of laundry or prepare 12 meals.
1. Definition of absolute advantage
2. Who has the absolute advantage in laundry?
5. In cooking?
3. Definition of comparative advantage:
4. What is Terry's opportunity cost of doing 1 load of laundry? (= meals/laundry).
Casey's?
5. Who has the comparative advantage in laundry?
How do you know?
6. What is Terry's opportunity cost of preparing 12 meals? (= laundry/meals)
Casey's?
7. Who has the comparative advantage in cooking?
How do you know?
8. Self-sufficiency: If you and you roommate were self-sufficient and split your day evenly between laundry and
cooking, how many meals and clean loads would you jointly produce? (fill in table)
9. Specialization: If you each spent the day doing
Clean loads
Meals
the activity in which you have a comparative
advantage, how much will you two produce? (fill in
table)
8. Self-sufficient
Terry
Casey
Total
10. When is total output of the apartment
greater? Self-sufficient
specialize
9. Specialize
Тerry
Casey
11. How can the roommates trade laundry for
_0_
meals so you both benefit from specialization?
_0_
(Compare what you have invand barterl)
Total
11. After barter:
Terry
Casey
*12. Terry is more capable than Casey. Does that
mean he has nothing to gain from trading with his
less capable roommate? Explain.
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