Using an example, calculate the price of labor and the price of capital by displaying diagrammatically two countries A and B. Also by using labor along the horizontal axis and capital along the vertical axis, identify their corresponding production and consumption points and the country having a comparative advantage?

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Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage Analysis

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