In the past, comparative advantages have sometimes shifted from one nation to another. What factors do you think caused these shifts? Why? Was there anything a nation could have done to prevent an advantage from shifting to another nation?

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Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage Analysis

The theory of absolute advantage was given by Adam Smith in the year 1776.