Comparative advantage is something that many companies, countries, and people must think about for many different reasons. The idea of comparative advantage is to produce a product or set of products at the cheapest price/time. For example in the book "The Choice" Dave says that by trading drugs for televisions is a "round-about way to wealth" or in other words Japan has a comparative advantage in making televisions, where the United States has a comparative advantage in making drugs compared to Japan. It is more to a country, company, or person to make one product as quickly and efficiently as possible and trade for the other products needed then trying to make everything that the company, country, or person needs. This idea of comparative advantage is used by many different companies, even companies that I have worked for. For example, McNaughton & Gunn, Inc. is a printing company based out of Saline, Michigan. M & G print many different kinds of books from spiral wire, plastic coil books, hard and soft cover books, ect. Anyways M & G can't do all of the bindings for all of these different kinds of books to be cheap and efficient so they outsource some of these processes to other binderies to do for them. M & G is in other words using the other binderies comparative advantage in a specific binding. Another example of M & G's practices is that when they have books that require them to have holes punched along the edge and plastic coil be put in them. If M & G were to do this themselves it may take them twice as long and may cost even more than that compared to their vendor Color Express Printing, Inc., however many of these jobs also are required to be individually wrapped in plastic. Even though M & G and Color Express Printing can both do this M & G completes this task. This is because even though both companies can do the required process M & G