Talk:Absolute advantage

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[edit] Needs major improvement

As it stands this article is hugely misleading, based on some pop-economics understanding of "absolute advantage" and a few dubious news stories. It would be nice if someone with more knowledge on the subject than I could rewrite it so it accurately reflects the absolute advantage theory of Adam Smith (not even mentioned in the article currently!) and compares it accurately with the comparative advantage theory of David Ricardo. Alternately, it may be worth merging the two articles into absolute and comparative advantage, since the discussion of the two is often intermingled. --Delirium 21:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Not sure about merging the two. Comparisons are good. But they are separate terms.Thomas Paine1776 23:09, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

As it is, the article really confuses comparative and absolute advantage. I shall try to sort it out if I can find time, but it must remain consistent in portraying absolute advantage as "being able to produce more than any other agent with a given quantity of input". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.84.125.159 (talk) 15:48, 14 November 2007 (UTC)