Question

The united states can produce 200 pillows in one week, while spain and france produce 150 and 100 pillows, respectively, in one week. on the other hand, spain can produce 10 televisions in one week, while the united states and france produce only 5 and 4 televisions, respectively. ____ has an absolute advantage in producing pillows, and ___has an absolute advantage in producing televisions.

Answer 1

According to the information given above, the United States has an absolute advantage in producing pillows, and Spain has an absolute advantage in producing televisions.

Answer 2

In the illustration given ...

THE UNITED STATES has an absolute advantage in producing pillows, and

SPAIN has an absolute advantage in producing televisions.

Absolute advantage refers to one person (or one nation) having a consistent advantage over another in making a particular product efficiently and best.

The production of a good or performance of a skill for which a person is best suited is termed comparative advantage.  Or, on a national level, the production of goods for which a nation's resources are best suited is comparative advantage.

Incidentally, the USA no longer has absolute or comparative advantage in the production of televisions. In the 1950s, at the dawn of the television era, there were over 100 television manufacturers in the US, producing about 11 million TV sets each year. But today, according to Politifact, "evidence suggests about 99 percent of sets sold in the United States are fully made and assembled overseas, mainly in Asia."