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= The red line sho s the flo s of goods and services hile the blue
line sho s the payments made to purchase these.
= Factor services flo from individuals ho o n the factors
including their o n labour) through factor markets to firms ho
use them to make goods and services red arro ).
= The goods and services then flo through goods markets to those
ho consume them red arro ).
= Money payments flo through factor markets from firms to
individuals blue arro ).
= When individuals spend this income buying goods and services,
money flo s through goods markets back to producers blue
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= The first columns sho that, orking full time on his o n, Jacob
can produce either 100 pounds of potatoes
40 s eaters per
year, hereas Maria can produce 400 pounds of potatoes
10
s eaters.
= Thus Maria has an absolute advantage in producing potatoes
and Jacob has an absolute advantage in producing s eaters.
= The second columns sho the outputs if they both spend ¦°
their time producing each commodity.
= The third columns sho the results hen Jacob specializes in
s eaters, producing 40 of them, and Maria specializes in
potatoes, producing 400 pounds.
= Êotato production rises from 250 to 400, hile s eater
production goes from 25 to 40.
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= The first columns in the table sho that Maria is more productive than
Jacob in both s eaters and potatoes.
= Compared ith Jacob, Maria is 400 per cent more efficient at
producing potatoes and 20 per cent more efficient at producing
s eaters.
= The second columns give the outputs hen Jacob and Maria each
divide their time equally bet een the t o products.
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= The third column gives an example in hich Jacob specializes fully in
s eater production and Maria spends 25 per cent of her time on
s eaters and 75 per cent on potatoes.
= Total production of potatoes rises from 250 to 300, hile total
production of s eaters goes from 44 to 52.
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