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Production Possibilities Frontier. The production possibilities frontier is an economic model. It is used to illustrate opportunity cost . Opportunity Cost is something that must be given up in order to have something else. Opportunity cost is the next best alternative. .
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The production possibilities frontier is an economic model.It is used to illustrate opportunity cost.
Opportunity Cost is something that must be given up in order to have something else. Opportunity cost is the next best alternative.
Trade offs – all things within a set of choices that were not chosen.
Economics is the study of how people make choices among the scarce resources that are available. We can’t have everything because we have limited resources. In order to make good decisions, we need to evaluate the choices available and consider what must be given up when we make those choices. In other words, we should always consider trade-offs and opportunity costs when making choices.
