Japan Can Use All of Its Resources to Produce 100

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Essay

Japan can use all of its resources to produce 100 videos or 400 shoes. China can use all of its resources to produce 25 videos or 200 shoes. Which nation has the comparative advantage in shoes and which nation has the comparative advantage in videos?

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Definitions:

Deontological Thinker

An individual who bases ethical decision-making on fixed moral rules or duties, regardless of the outcomes these decisions may produce.

Kant

Immanuel Kant, an 18th-century German philosopher renowned for his work in ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, emphasizing duty, moral law, and the categorical imperative.

Mutual Benefit

An arrangement or action by which all parties involved gain or benefit, commonly used in contexts of legal agreements, business dealings, or cooperative efforts.

Free Market Ethics

Ethical principles that support or relate to the functioning of unregulated markets and the voluntary exchange between parties.