David Ricardo showed in 1817 that a country could benefit from trade even if it did everything better than its neighbours. A country that is better at everything will still be “most better”, so to speak, at something. It should concentrate on that, Ricardo showed, importing what its neighbours do “least worse”.
If bad grammar is not enough to make the point, an old analogy might...
I thought that was nicely written -- or at least a nice escape from some fairly crude terminology.
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