In a two-country world, if country A is the relatively labor-abundant and country B is the relatively capital-abundant country by the "price" definition of factor abundance (and where w is the wage rate and r is the return to capital), then . When the countries move from autarky to Heckscher-Ohlin-type trade, the result will be that .

Helen tells her nephew, bernard, that she will pay him $100 if he will stop smoking for six months. helen was hopeful that if bernard stopped smoking for six months, he would stop altogether. bernard stops smoking for six months but then resumes his smoking. helen will not pay him. she says that the type of promise she made cannot constitute a binding contract and that, furthermore, it was at least implied that he would stop smoking for good. can bernard legally collect $100 from helen