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Cost PPC  \n○  \n● Efficiency: The point at which there are no missed opportunities; cannot make someone better off without making someone else worse off  \n● Productive efficiency: lowest cost possible on PPC  \n● Allocative efficiency: The economy allocates resources so that consumers are as well off as possible/producing what is demanded.  \n● Increasing Opportunity Costs: concave PPC  \n● Economic Growth: allows sustained rise in aggregate output/expansion of PPC outwards  \n○ Causes:  \n■ Increase/Development of technology  \n■ Increase in resources  \n1.4: Comparative Advantage and Trade  \n● Trade: people divide work and each provides goods in return for other goods  \n● Comparative Advantage: a situation in which an individual, business, or country can produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than another producer  \n○ Can’t have a comparative advantage in both goods  \n● Absolute Advantage: a situation in which an individual, business, or country can produce more of a good or service than any other producer with the same quantity of resources.  \n1.5: Cost-Benefit Analysis  \n● Terms of Trade: the rate at which goods can be exchanged  \n○ Mutually beneficial between opportunity costs ofthe 2 individuals  \n○ Capital goods: goods that make consumer goods  \n■ more capital goods = more growth in future  \n○ Consumer goods: goods that are consumed (final goods)  \n1.6: Marginal Analysis and Consumer Choice  \n● Marginal decisions: trade-off of doing a little more or a little less  \n○ Marginal benefit: benefit of producing one more unit  \n○ Marginal cost: cost of producing one more unit  \n○ Marginal analysis: the study of the additional benefits vs the additional cost of an activit","cbCaipLIBm5P4ljS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipLIBm5P4ljS","pdf",113974,"English","# Unit 1: Basic Economic Concepts\n## 1.1 Scarcity\n## 1.2 Resource Allocation and Economic Systems\n## 1.3 Production Possibilities Curve (PPC)\n## 1.4 Comparative Advantage and Trade\n## 1.5 Cost-Benefit Analysis\n## 1.6 Marginal Analysis and Consumer Choice","[{\"question\":\"What does scarcity mean in economics, and how does it relate to economic choice?\",\"answer\":\"Scarcity means unlimited wants but limited resources. 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