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1. How does the production possibilities frontier illustrate scarcity?
The unattainable combinations of production that lie beyond the PPF illustrate the concept of
scarcity. There are not enough resources to produce any of these combinations. And moving
along the PPF to increase the production of one good requires that the production of another
good be reduced, which also illustrates scarcity.
2. How does the production possibilities frontier illustrate production efficiency?
The production points that lie on the PPF illustrate the concept of production efficiency.
These points are attained only by producing the goods and services at the lowest possible
cost. At any point inside the frontier, production of one good can be increased without
decreasing production of the other good. Such points cannot be production efficient.
3. How does the production possibilities frontier show that every choice involves a
tradeoff?
Movements along the PPF illustrate that producing more of one good requires producing less
of the other good. This observation reflects the result that a tradeoff must be made when
producing efficiently.
4. How does the production possibilities frontier illustrate opportunity cost?
The negative slope of the production possibility curve illustrates the concept of opportunity
cost. Moving along the production possibilities frontier, producing additional units of a good
requires that the output of the other good must fall. This tradeoff is the opportunity cost of
producing more of the first good.
5. Why is opportunity cost a ratio?
The slope of the PPF is a ratio that expresses the quantity of lost production of the good on
the y-axis to the increase in the production of the good on the x-axis moving downward along
the PPF. The steeper the slope, the greater is the ratio, and the greater is the opportunity
cost of increasing the output of the good measured on the horizontal axis.
6. Why does the PPF bow outward and what does that imply about the
relationship between opportunity cost and the quantity produced?
Some resources are better suited to produce one type of good or service, like pizza. Other
resources are better suited to produce other goods or services, like DVDs. If society allocates
resources wisely, it will use each resource to produce the kind of output for which it is best
suited. Consider a PPF with pizza measured on the x-axis and DVDs measured on the y•
axis. A small increase in pizza output when pizza production is relatively low requires only a
small increase in the use of those resources still good at making pizza and not good at
making DVDs. This yields a small decrease in DVD production for a large increase in pizza
production, creating a relatively low opportunity cost reflected in the gentle slope of the PPF
over this range of output. However, the same small increase in pizza output when pizza
production is relatively large will require society to devote to pizza production those
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resources that are less suited to making pizza and more suited to making DVDs. This
reallocation of resources yields a relatively small increase in pizza output for a large
decrease in DVD output, creating a relatively high opportunity cost reflected in the steep
slope of the PPF over this range of output. The opportunity cost of pizza production
increases with the quantity of pizza produced as the slope of the PPF becomes ever steeper.
This effect creates the bowed-out effect (the concavity of the PPF function) and means that
as more of a good is produced, the opportunity cost of producing additional units increases.

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1. What is marginal cost? How is it measured?

Marginal cost is the opportunity cost of producing one more unit of a good or service. Along a
PPF marginal cost is reflected in the absolute value of the slope of the PPF. In particular, the
magnitude of the slope of the PPF is the marginal cost of a unit of the good measured along
the x-axis. As the magnitude of the slope changes moving along the PPF, the marginal cost
changes.
2. What is marginal benefit? How is it measured?
The marginal benefit from a good or service is the benefit received from consuming one more
unit of it. It is measured by what an individual is willing to give up (or pay) for an additional
unit.
3. How does the marginal benefit from a good change as the quantity produced of
that good increases?
As more of a good is consumed, the marginal benefit received from each unit is smaller than
the marginal benefit received from the unit consumed immediately before it, and is larger
than the marginal benefit from the unit consumed immediately after it. This set of results is
known as the principle of decreasing marginal benefit and is often assumed by economists to
be a common characteristic of an individual's preferences over most goods and services in
the economy.
4. What is allocative efficiency and how does it relate to the production possibilities
frontier?
Allocative efficiency is a situation in which goods and services are produced at the lowest
possible cost and in the quantities that provide the greatest possible benefit. We cannot
produce more of any good without giving up some of another good that we value more highly.
The allocative efficient level of output is the point on the PPF (and hence is a production
efficient point) for which the marginal benefit equals the marginal cost.
5. What conditions must be satisfied if resources are used efficiently?
Resources are used efficiently when more of one good or service cannot be produced without
producing less of some other good or service that is valued more highly. This is known as
allocative efficiency and it occurs when: 1) production efficiency is achieved, and 2) the
marginal benefit received from the last unit produced is equal to the marginal cost of
producing the last unit.

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1. What generates economic growth?
The two key factors that generate economic growth are technological change and capital
accumulation. Technological change is the development of new goods and of better ways of
producing goods and services. Capital accumulation is the growth of capital resources,
including human capital.

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2. How does economic growth influence the production possibilities frontier?

Economic growth shifts the PPF outward.
3. What is the opportunity cost of economic growth?
When a society devotes more of its scarce resources to research and development of new
technologies, or devotes additional resources to produce more capital equipment, both
decisions lead to increased consumption opportunities in future periods at the cost of less
consumption today. The loss of consumption today is the opportunity cost borne by society
for creating economic growth.
4. Explain why Hong Kong has experienced faster economic growth than Canada.
Hong Kong devotes a greater proportion of its available resources to the production of capital
than Canada. Canada devotes one-fifth of its resources to accumulating capital. Hong Kong
devotes one-third of its resources to accumulating capital. This allows Hong Kong to grow at
a faster rate than Canada.
5. Does economic growth overcome scarcity?
Scarcity reflects the inability to satisfy all our wants. Regardless of the amount of economic
growth, scarcity will remain present because it will never be possible to satisfy all our wants.
Economic growth allows more wants to be satisfied but it does not eliminate scarcity.

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1. What gives a person a comparative advantage?
A person has a comparative advantage in an activity if that person can perform the activity at
a lower opportunity cost than anyone else. If the person gives up the least amount of other
goods and services to produce a particular good or service, the person has the lowest
opportunity cost of producing that good or service.
2. Distinguish between comparative advantage and absolute advantage.
A person has a comparative advantage in producing a good when he or she has the lowest
opportunity cost of producing it. Comparative advantage is based on the output forgone . A
person has an absolute advantage in production when he or she uses the least amount of
time or resources to produce one unit of that particular good or service. Absolute advantage
is a measure of productivity in using inputs.
3. Why do people specialize and trade?
People can compare consumption possibilities from producing all goods and services
through self-sufficiency against specializing in producing only those goods and services that
reflect their comparative advantage and trading their output with others who do the same.
People can then see that the consumption possibilities from specialization and trade are
greater than under self-sufficiency. So it is in people's own self-interest to specialize.
4. What are the gains from specialization and trade?
From society's standpoint, the total output of goods and services available for consumption is
greater with specialization and trade. From an individual's perspective, each person who
specializes enjoys being able to consume a larger bundle of goods and services after trading
with others who have also specialized, than would otherwise be possible under self •
sufficiency. These increases are the gains from specialization and trade for society and for
individuals.
5. What is the source of the gains from trade?
As long as people have different opportunity costs of producing goods or services, total
output is higher with specialization and trade than if each individual produced goods and

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services under self-sufficiency. This increase in output that arises from divergent opportunity
costs is the gains from trade.

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1. Why are social institutions such as firms, markets, property rights, and
money necessary?
These social institutions are necessary for a decentralized economy to coordinate
production. Firms are necessary to allow people to specialize. Without firms, specialization
would be limited because a person would need to specialize in the entire production of a
good or service. With firms people are able to specialize in producing particular bits of a good
or service. For a society to enjoy the fruits of specialization and trade, the individuals who
comprise that society must voluntarily desire to specialize in the first place. Discovering trade
opportunities after a person has specialized in his or her comparative advantage in
production is what allows that person to gain from his own specialization efforts. Trading
opportunities can only take place if a market exists where people observe prices to discover
available trade opportunities. Money is necessary to allow low-cost trading in markets.
Without money, goods would need to be directly exchanged for other goods, a difficult and
unwieldy situation. Finally people must enjoy social recognition of and government protection
of property rights to have confidence that their commitments to trade arrangements will be
respected by everyone in the market.
2. What are the main functions of markets?
The main function of a market is to enable buyers and sellers to get information and to do
business with each other. Markets have evolved because they facilitate trade, that is, they
facilitate the ability of buyers and sellers to trade with each other.
3. What are the flows in the market economy that go from firms to households
and the flows from households to firms?
On the real side of the economy, goods and services flow from firms to households. On the
money side of the economy, payments for factors of production, wages, rent, interest, and
profits, flow from firms to households. Flowing from households to firms on the money side of
the economy are the expenditures on goods and services and on the real side are the factors
of production, labour, land, capital, and entrepreneurship.

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