Comparative Advantage Quotes

• Cada gran campaña política reescribe las reglas; idear una nueva forma de ganar es lo que da a las campañas una ventaja comparativa frente a sus enemigos.

  John Podhoretz

  Winning, Giving, Political

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• Miles de hombres importantes e inteligentes nunca han sido capaces de comprender el principio de la ventaja comparativa ni de creer en él, ni siquiera después de habérselo explicado.

  Paul Samuelson

  Believe, Intelligent, Men

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• En la búsqueda de ventajas comparativas, la inversión se dirigirá hacia los países que puedan ofrecer más producción por menos emisiones. La inacción costará puestos de trabajo. La acción apoyará el empleo.

  Julia Gillard

  Country, Jobs, Support

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• To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.

  Richard Koch

  Determination, Giving, Important

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• Es aquí donde llegamos al meollo de la cuestión. El principio económico de la ventaja comparativa", "un país puede, a cambio de productos manufacturados, importar maíz aunque se pueda cultivar con menos mano de obra que en el país del que se importa...".

  David Ricardo

  Country, Heart, Principles

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• In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Technology, Labor Force

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.102, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Law, People, Criticism

  Comment as Eliezer Yudkowsky @yudkowsky, www.facebook.com. June 10, 2012.

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• In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.

  Robert Gilpin

  Cost, Patterns, Social

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's good at. And I think they overdid it. There was more military force than was necessary.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Thinking, United States

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• Tenemos que pasar de la ventaja comparativa a la ventaja perpetua.

  Max McKeown

  Moving, Needs, Advantage

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• A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.

  John Stossel

  Art, Men, Creating

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• La nacionalización temporal de los bancos que están en muy mal estado significaría básicamente que el gobierno es el propietario temporal. Siempre he creído que el Gobierno debe centrarse en sus ventajas comparativas, y la banca no es una de ellas. Por lo tanto, si nacionaliza los bancos, debería volver a venderlos al sector privado.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Believe, Mean, Government

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Skills, Important, Scientist

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 15, 1958.

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• The fact that global savers accommodate U.S. consumers by keeping U.S. interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and the dollar stronger than it otherwise would be is simply a manifestation of America's comparative advantage at supplying wealth storage facilities.

  John H. Makin

  America, Balance, Stronger

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