Microeconomics
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Chapter 1, Problem 6DQ
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The slope of a budget line that illustrates opportunity cost , trade-offs, scarcity, and the effect of limited incomes.
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11.Explain how (if at all) each of the following events affects the location of a country’s production possibilities curve: LO5
a.The quality of education increases.
b.The number of unemployed workers increases.
c.A new technique improves the efficiency of extracting copper from ore.
d.A devastating earthquake destroys numerous production facilities.
1. Improvements in technology.
2. Increases in the supply (stock) of capital goods
3. Purchases of expanding output.
4. Obtaining the optimal combination of goods, each at least-cost production.
5. Increases in the quantity and quality of natural resources.
6. Increases in the quantity and quality of human resources.
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Which set of items in the accompanying list would move an economy from a point inside its production possibilities curve to a point on its
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5. Refer to the following production possibilities table for con.
sumer goods (automobiles) and capital goods (forklifts): LO1.6
a. Show these data graphically. Upon what specific assump-
tions is this production possibilities curve based?
b. If the economy is at point C, what is the cost of one more
automobile? Of one more forklift? Which characteristic of
the production possibilities curve reflects the law of increas-
ing opportunity costs: its shape or its length?
c. If the economy characterized by this production possibilities
table and curve is producing 3 automobiles and 20 forklifts,
what could you conclude about its use of its available
resources?
d. Is production at a point outside the production possibilities
curve currently possible? Could a future advance in technol-
ogy allow production beyond the current production possi-
bilities curve? Could international trade allow a country to
consume beyond its current production possibilities curve?!…
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Microeconomics
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