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- From: kenr@orleans.storage.tandem.com (Ken Rose)
- Subject: Re: Comparative Advantage
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:03:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.214534.6206@gasco.com>, fpf@taurus.gasco.com (Frank Ferguson x3584) writes:
- > Given the disparity between income and wage levels between the developed
- > and developing world; and given the vast number of potential workers in
- > the developing world's low wage pool, one would expect the process of
- > lowering the industrial nation's workers wage level to go on for some
- > time. At the extreme, the wages of people in all nations would achieve
- > the a common level, and given the current situation that would mean that
- > wage earners in developed countries would see their wages fall to
- > equality with those of third world competitors.
-
- Let's think about the assumptions implicit here. For one, Frank has
- assumed that world output will remain constant, and so capital will
- move to places with lower cost labor.
-
- However, if one considers the possibility of new capital
- being invested in poor nations, than the world output will go
- up. If the pie gets larger, workers in developed countries can
- keep their standard of living while workers in poorer countries
- improve theirs.
-
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