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Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 41 No. 1 1926

The Doctrine of Comparative Cost

Edward S. Mason

Harvard University Press

Abstract

I. The value problem in international trade theory, 63. — II. Relation of real costs to value in general theory and in the theory of international trade, 65. — The importance of a unit of measurement of real costs. 66. — III. Position of the doctrine of comparative cost in international trade theory, 72. Treatment by Ricardo and Mill of the relation of real costs to value, 72. — IV. Cairnes and the doctrine of non-competing groups, 77. — Importance of this for the doctrine of comparative cost, 81. — V. Treatment by Bastable and Marshall of therelation of real costs to value in value theory and in the theory of comparative cost, 83. —V I. Summary and conclusion, 92.

DOI
10.2307/1885553
Volume
41
Issue
1
Pages
63
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