What are the four factors of production?
labour, capital, land, and entrepreneurship
United States: 500 bushels of corn Mexico: 400 bushels of corn Comparative advantage.
USA
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What is Entrepreneurship?
Panama can produce 100 bananas and 50 sugarcane.
Honduras can produce 160 bananas and 40 sugarcane.
What is Panama’s opportunity cost for producing one unit of bananas? What is Honduras’s opportunity cost for producing one unit of sugarcane?
Panama's per unit opportunity cost for one banana is 1/2 sugarcane.
Honduras's per unit opportunity cost for one sugarcane is 4 bananas
Oakbrookville produces both pizza and tacos. Suddenly, all of the students decide that pizza is inhumane and they will not longer eat it. Does this shift Oakbrookville's PPC? If so, how?
No, Oakbrookville's PPC will not shift. A change in demand does not shift the PPC; it causes a slide along the curve toward tacos and away from pizza production.
Rome can produce 500 units of wine and 400 units of wheat.
Carthage can produce 200 units of wine and 300 units of wheat.
Draw a PPC graph using those production numbers. Which country has the comparative advantage in wheat? Which country should specialize in the production of wine?
Rome can produce 500 units of wine and 400 units of wheat.
Carthage can produce 200 units of wine and 300 units of wheat.
Draw a PPC graph using those production numbers. Which country has the comparative advantage in wheat? Which country should specialize in the production of wine?
Panama can produce 100 bananas and 50 sugarcane.
Honduras can produce 160 bananas and 40 sugarcane.
What would be the mutually beneficial terms of trade? 1 sugarcane for...
Mutually acceptable terms if trade would be 1 sugarcane for any number between 2 and 4 bananas