Response to Required Reading

Please read the Helpman article up to page 133 (stop at “economies of scale and product differentiation”).

Answer the questions are:
1. According to Helpman, what were the successes and failures of the Hecksher-Ohlin framework?
2. What is the “Leontief Paradox”, and what explanations have economists given to resolve it?

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