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>Much of economics is built on models that were designed to provide a formal, logical basis for understanding the economic world, which is often quite unintuitive. I disagree. It's purposefully unintuitive. >(For example, many intelligent people uneducated in economics exhibit intuitions opposite of basic economic ideas like opportunity cost or comparative advantage.) Most people don't believe in comparative advantag…
Not sure comparative advantage needs past decisions to happen - could just be randomly distributed resources, for example.
Nothing that imtringued wrote above suggests he understands comparative advantage, which is the idea that it is relative productivity, not absolute productivity, that should determine what one specializes in. That’s precisely what I meant about people finding the concept unintuitive.