Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Macroeconomics Unit I: Production Possibilities Graph

 Production Possibilities Graph


  • Alternative ways to use resources. 


  

Points

A: Inefficient, under utilization, and attainable
Causes: war, famine, unemployment, and recession

B: Efficient, but producing more guns

C: Efficient, but producing more butter

D: Efficient and attainable

X: Unattainable
Causes: Economic growth, technology, and new resources

Key Assumptions

1) Two goods are produced
2) Full employment
3) Fixed resources (land, labor, and capital)
4) Fixed state of technology
5) No international trade





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