ECON 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marginal Utility, Marginal Cost, Allocative Efficiency

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Production possibilities frontier (ppf): the boundary between combinations of good and services that can be produces and those that cannot. Product eiciency is achieved when we produce goods and services at the lowest possible cost. When we produce on the ppf, we incur lowest possible cost of production. Production inside the ppf is ineicient because resources are unused (idle but could be working) or misallocated (assigned to tasks which they"re not the best match) A choice along the ppf involves a tradeof, which involves a cost an opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is the decrease in the quantity produced of one good divided by the increase of another good as we move along the production possibilities frontier. When goods and services produced at the lowest possible cost and in the quantities that provide the greatest possible beneit, we have achieved allocative eiciency. Marginal cost of a good is the opportunity cost of producing one more unit of it.

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