Jeff and Jenn specialize     You may remember that Jeff has a comparative advantage in Page production while Jenn has a comparative advantage in Image production. Their PPFs are shown to the right as before.

    If each of them specialize in production of the good for which he or she has a comparative advantage, Jeff would produce at P where his output is 60 pages and no images and Jenn would produce at I where her output is 50 images and no pages. With specialization, total output is 50 images and 60 pages. As we shall see, if they both specialize and then trade, they can both attain total page and image outputs neither could attain without specialization.

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