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This 4 page paper is written in 2 parts. The first part of the paper looks at the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) Model and compares it to the Ricardo model. The second part of the paper looks at the concept of free trade asking why, if it is a good model, is it not seen fully implemented in the real economy. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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be p[arty accounted for in the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) Model. David Ricardo developed an alternative idea to that of Adam Smith and the need
for countries to focus on the goods which they had absolute advantage. Ricardo states that countries and companies within the countries should make their decision of what commodities to produce
and export by reference to that which has the smallest absolute disadvantage. They should also import commodities where the absolute disadvantage is the greatest. This is also known as the
theory of comparative advantage (Nellis and Parker, 2006). However, this does not explain all trade patterns, for this we can compare the idea of comparative advantage as put forward by
Ricardo with the HO model. The neo-classicalists look to the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) Model as a more modern development (Leamer, 1995). The major
problem as seen with the former models1 is that they do not account for the reason that the diverse industries in countries do not specialize in only a small amount
of goods a country still produces goods where it does have an absolute disadvantage. This paradigm includes the aspect of opportunity cost as a reason for the incomplete format of
specialization in many areas. The theory can be seen where a nation will export the good which where the production needs the use of the nations relatively plentiful factors
and import the goods where the production requires the intensive use of the nations relatively scarce factor (Leamer, 1995). This does make allowances for some of the factors missing
from Ricardos model, with this we can start to include elements such as changing production costs, with the use of resources include elements such as the cost of transportation and
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