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Production Possibilities Frontiers and Opportunity Costs

A curve showing the maximum attainable combinations of two products that may be produced with available resources and current technology.

PPF's with straight line

Constant marginal opportunity cost

PPF's with bowed outward

Represent increasing marginal opportunity costs

PPF & OPPORTUNITY COST

Lead to economic growth

Changing resources and technology

Economic Growth

The ability of the economy to increase the production of goods and services

When the PPF is bowed outward

Increasing the production of one product involves sacrificing increasing amounts of the alternative product

Labor

Physical actions of humans needed to produce a product

Physical Capital

Any manufactured resource needed to produce a product

Trade

Act of buying or selling

Direct Trade

Occurs when one good or service is exchanged for another good or service

Indirect Trade

Occurs when one good or service is exchanged for money and that money is exchanged for another good or service.

Absolute Advantage

Ability of an individual, a firm, or a country to produce more of a good or service than competitors, using the same resources.

Comparative Advantage

Ability of an individual, firm, or country to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than competitors.

Opportunity cost is measured by

The slope of a country's PPF

Market

Group of buyers and sellers of a good or service and the institution or arrangement by which they come together.

Product Market

Market for goods, such as computers, or services, such as medical treatment.

Factor Market

Market for the factors of production, such as labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurial ability.

Market system

Link between the marks can be shown with the circular flow diagram

Free Market

Exists when the government places few restrictions on how goods and services can be produced or sold or on how factors of production are employed.

Two conditions for free market to work

1. Prices must be flexible and free to adjust up or down (competitive market)
2. Property Rights must exist and be legally enforced

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Is the ability of an individual a firm or a country to produce a good or service at a lower absolute cost than competitors?

Absolute advantage The ability of an individual, firm, or country to produce more of a good or service than competitors using the same amount of resources.

Is the ability of an individual a firm or a country to produce a good or service?

Comparative advantage is the ability to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than competitors. It is possible to have a comparative advantage in producing a good even if someone else has an absolute advantage in producing that good (and every other good).

Is the ability of a person or country to produce a good or service for the lowest opportunity cost?

Comparative advantage is an economy's ability to produce a particular good or service at a lower opportunity cost than its trading partners. Comparative advantage is used to explain why companies, countries, or individuals can benefit from trade.

What does a countries ability to produce goods and services depend on?

Principle #8: A country's standard of living depends on its ability to produce goods & services. The most important determinant of living standards: productivity, the amount of goods and services produced per unit of labor. Productivity depends on the equipment, skills, and technology available to workers.