Saturday, January 26, 2013

Employment & Efficiency

-production possibilities graph (PPG)-shows alternative ways to use resources

-PPC-production possibilities curve

-PPF-production possibilites frontier

-opportunity cost-next best alternative

-productive efficiency-products being produced in least costly way
-allocative efficiency-products being produced are ones society most desires

-Law of Increasing Opportunity Cost (aka Law of Diminishing Return)-states that as production of a product increases, the cost to produce an additional unit of that product increases as well

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