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Tadeusz Rybczynski
Biography
- Born in May of 1923 in Lvov, Ukraine.
- Moved to Britain in 1942.
- Entered education at London School of Economics.
- Joined Lazard Brothers in 1954 and retired at 1986.
- Rybczynski published the Rybczynski Theorem in 1955, which is remained an extremely useful building block of international theory.
- Rybczynski died in December of 1998 in London, Britain.
T. M. Rybczynski
Rybczynski Theorem
If you hold output prices constant as the amount of a factor of production increases, then the supply of the good that uses this factor intensively increases and the supply of the other good decreases.
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ANALYSIS
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Key Issues of Rybczynski Theorem
- The Rybczynksi Theorem shows there is a positive relationship between changes in a factor endowment and changes in the output of the product that uses that factor intensively.
- The Rybczynski Theorem shows there is a negative relationship between changes in a factor endowment and changes in the output of the product that does not use that factor intensively.