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1 Comparative Advantage and The Limits of Freedom Ricardo and Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments

2 Review Wealth of Nations: Selfishness leads to social harmony Interaction of selfish motives social harmony No Planning authority, no Leviathan, no Prince, no just price Prices are kept in line with production costs Society tells producers what to do High prices are a self-curing disease.

3 Ricardo s Theory of Comparative Advantage Specialization + Trade

4 Production without specialization and division of Labor Wine Cloth England 3 5 (Total production =8) Portugal 9 6 (Total production=15) Total goods produced = 23

5 Production with specialization but before trade Before Trade: Resources put where they are most efficient (specialization) Wine Cloth England 1 10 Portugal 16 0 Total goods produced = 27 note: efficiency increases total number of goods available

6 With Specialization and Trade England trades Portugal 4 units of cloth for 4 units of wine Exchange rate is 1 to 1. Wine Cloth England 5 6 (available goods =11) Portugal 12 4 (available goods =16) Total goods produced is still 27 but each country is better off than before trade and both are better off than before efficiency

7 Krugman defends Ricardo and wins Nobel Prize.. Ricardo s difficult idea Krugman noticed that the accepted model economists used to explain patterns of international trade did not fit the data. The Hecksher-Ohlin model predicted that trade would be based on such factors as the ratio of capital to labor, with "capital-rich" countries exporting capital-intensive goods and importing labor-intensive goods from "labor-rich" countries. Mr. Krugman noticed that most international trade takes place between countries with roughly the same ratio of capital to labor. The auto industry in capital-intensive Sweden, for example, exports cars to capital-intensive America, while Swedish consumers also import cars from America.

8 Free Trade leads to growth in Exports which leads to economic development

9 Sum: Effects of Free Trade Efficiency Growth Good life for everyone Harmonious International Relations Role of the State: To let producers produce most efficiently to separate politics and economics: the key actors are firms and consumers, not states. Commerce Peace Why? Efficiency should be the basis of all political relations Does Free Trade make the state obsolete?

10 Smith: Theory of Moral Sentiments Was Smith actually Socrates, Aristotle and Rousseau reincarnated?

11 What are Moral sentiments? What is a sentiment? What is morality? A set of principles What is Moral Behavior? Some Examples So what are Moral sentiments?

12 Sympathy: An individual moral sentiment 'How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it'. Compassion and Fellow-feeling: Put yourself in someone else s place and imagine how they would feel. Enter into that person s feelings If you don t approve of the feelings, then you don t approve of the action based on the feeling. Look at your own feelings and actions from the vantage point of someone else General Rules, Standards of Rationality, and Usefulness don t apply

13 Social and Economic Justice: a consequence of individual sympathy on the part of all members of society Justice is sympathy, NOT what is useful Justice is instinctive And our instincts are given to us by God for a good purpose Society s protection is the unintended consequence of individuals disapproval of injustice This follows the same idea as social good arising from individual motives in the market

14 Benevolence: moral sentiment toward community A Natural Order: Is Smith like Plato and Aristotle here? Nature, which formed men for that mutual kindness, so necessary for their happiness, renders every man the peculiar object of kindness, to the persons to whom he himself has been kind. The Natural order of Benevolence for Smith After himself, the members of his own family are naturally the objects of his warmest affections the same principles that direct the order in which individuals are recommended to our beneficence, direct that likewise in which societies are recommended to it (first) the state in which we have been educated

15 Family and community Parents have special responsibilities for their children's welfare. Does this arise from freely consenting to be a parent? Children also have a responsibility to their parents: is this a free exchange? Could you harm your own relatives or community for the greater good?

16 The Nation as Community: Is Smith like Rousseau here? Pride and Shame as moral sentiments based on shared identity. When we compare ours with other societies of the same kind, we are proud of its superiority, and mortified, in some degree, if it appears in any respect below them. The love of our own nation often disposes us to view, with the most malignant jealousy and envy, the prosperity and aggrandizement of any other neighboring nation The love of our own country seems not to be derived from the love of mankind

17 Patriotism as a moral sentiment: should it be a decision rule for allocating resources? Do citizens have obligations toward one another that they do NOT have toward other people in the world? Rousseau: It seems that the sentiment of humanity evaporates and weakens in being extended over the entire world, and that we cannot be affected by the calamities in Tartary or Japan the way we are by those of a European people. Interest and commiseration must somehow be limited and restrained to be active.

18 Individual Freedom vs. community obligations Is Smith contradicting himself? Moral individualism and consent: Mill, Locke, Smith (Wealth of Nations) All based on reason.---smith bases his moral sentiments and Rousseau his general will on emotion

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