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HCHenry

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What is a primary disadvantage of industrial policy?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is opportunity cost? Why is opportunity cost an important consideration when determining what a country should export and import?
 
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Answer to Question 1

Some experts argue that government bureaucrats cannot perfectly identify the right industries to favor under such a policy.

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The opportunity cost of a good is the value of what is given up to get the good. Opportunity cost acknowledges that a country should also consider how its efforts are best spent. While a country may be absolutely more productive than another country, it must consider that productivity relative to other things that the country could be producing.



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