However, as David Ricardo observed almost 200 years ago, economic optimisation is about comparative advantage.
"The Impact of Urbanization on Biosphere Reserves: A Comparative Study of Protected and Non-Protected Coastal Areas".
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Measured against their respective peers and teams, all had better comparative stats than Pettitte.
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) was the most ambitious comparative study ever conducted.
Nordstrom, Saks and Neiman Marcus outperformed expectations with comparative sales increasing 8%, 12% and 12.5% respectively.
Sumantra Bose is professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics.
Worse, it violates arguably the most powerful economic idea ever conceived in comparative advantage.
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For comparative purposes, Nature would have accepted only about 50 out of that number.
The push is still in focusing on comparative advantage, doing the value-added thing you do best.
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It is also beginning to publish comparative graduation rates and job prospects for all universities.
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There, Pizza Hut and KFC experienced year-over-year comparative sales growth of 22% and 17% respectively.
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John Goodman and my colleagues at NCPA have the comparative advantage on those topics.
This year there were more than 30, with over 1, 000 people the majority comparative novices.
Developed economies' comparative advantage is in knowledge-intensive activities, because they have so much skilled labour.
I've learnt a very great deal, because we all start off in comparative ignorance of it.
It is not necessary to invoke comparative advantage in order to defend such global free trade.
The area could expand its comparative advantage from merely making things into moving things as well.
Question: are you admitting that the concept of comparative advantage is necessary to vindicate free trade?
For this reason it is unable to come to any view on comparative rupture rates.
Aerospace technology is one of the few remaining areas of distinct U.S. comparative advantage.
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It has a comparative advantage in producing specialist goods that require a global market.
He has just begun an independent comparative study that will cover 1, 800 patients over three years.
To use the language of economics, don't try to rectify things that aren't your comparative advantage.
At first blush, real-world trade patterns would seem to challenge the theory of comparative advantage.
Now, in the comparative comfort of its lab back home, iRobot is fine-tuning all those adjustments.
He argues that many poor countries possess an underlying comparative advantage in farm goods.
At its best, comparative-effectiveness research can give doctors and patients additional information on their treatment options.
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Colombia's rice growers and poultry farmers look to be on the wrong side of comparative advantage.
Dr Gosling's method has helped to launch a new scientific discipline, comparative personality theory.
But they do not overturn the fundamental insight of the theory of comparative advantage.
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