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"Competitive advantage of nations" is a phrase coined by Joseph Stiglitz, identifying a nation as having a cluster of similar producers which gives the nation a special advantage over other countries.

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False

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The authors who first mentioned this concept were the classics, Adam Smith and David Ricardo especially, and it was David Ricardo the first economist in developing a whole theory about international trading and competitive and comparative advantages among nations, recently Michael Porter has developed a similar theory called the Porter's diamond in which he determines the factors that make countries more competitive and through which they achieve business success, he wrote a book called "the competitive advantage of nations".

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