Explain how the production possibilities frontier illustrates scarcity

What will be an ideal response?

The PPF illustrates scarcity because we cannot attain the points outside the frontier.

Economics

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Suppose the measured unemployment rate is 4.5% and the true natural rate of unemployment is 5.1%. What should policymakers do in this situation? Suppose that the chair of the Federal Reserve believes the natural rate of unemployment to be 4.0%

What will the chair of the Fed do in this situation, and will this be a good decision?

Economics

A sudden technological breakthrough in an economy would:

a. have no impact on real GDP. b. cause aggregate demand to fall. c. lower the natural rate of unemployment. d. increase the price level. e. cause aggregate supply to rise.

Economics