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International economics

the finding that US exports embodied less capital relative to labor than US imports despite US capital abundance, at odds with Heckscher-Ohlin predictions.

In international economics, Leontief paradox refers to the finding that US exports embodied less capital relative to labor than US imports despite US capital abundance, at odds with Heckscher-Ohlin predictions. This meaning comes from Leamer (1980) in Journal of Political Economy.[1]

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References

Leamer, E. E. (1980). The Leontief Paradox, Reconsidered. Journal of Political Economy, 88(3), 495-503. https://doi.org/10.1086/260882

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