Mary Hall is a editor for Investopedia's Advisor Insights, in addition to being the editor of several books and doctoral papers. Mary received her bachelor's in English from Kent State University with ...

David Ricardo, who lived in the late 18 th and early 19 th century in Great Britain, and who was one of the most influential classical economists, coined the term comparative advantage in 1817. He had ...

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