1a. What is a Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF)? Consider an economy with only two goods: guns and butter. Show the tradeoff between the production of guns and the production of butter by drawing a (bowed outward) PPF (use gun production on the horizontal axis and butter production on the vertical axis). b. In what ways does the PPF reflect: i. scarcity and choice; and ii. increasing opportunity cost? c. How would the PPF be affected by a technological improvement in the production of guns?

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1a. What is a Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF)? Consider an economy with only two goods: guns and butter. Show the tradeoff between the production of guns and the production of butter by drawing a (bowed outward) PPF (use gun production on the horizontal axis and butter production on the vertical axis).

b. In what ways does the PPF reflect: i. scarcity and choice; and ii. increasing opportunity cost?

c. How would the PPF be affected by a technological improvement in the production of guns?

 

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