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INSTITUTION: An established method or way of doing something that's widely accepted throughout society. Common institutions include marriage, markets, high school football in the fall, government, and Christmas gift-giving. Institutions provide the rules and guidelines needed to carry out the day-to-day activities of our lives. Institutions provide the crucial structure of a society and the framework within which economic activity takes place. Without institution structure, anarchy would prevail. With the rules, though, come rigidities that can prevent resources from being allocated efficiently.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 2: The Schedule
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This is a simple, hypothetical production possibilities schedule for the economy.- The economy is using all resources with given technology to efficiently produce two goods, jogging shoes and quartz clock calibrators.
- Bundles A through K represent production alternatives for the economy, such as bundle D with 3 calibrators and 425 pairs of shoes. We have unlimited possibilities using available resources and technology to the fullest extent.
- All shoes, no calibrators, bundle A.
- All calibrators, no shoes, bundle K.
- Some of each good, bundles E or J.
- How about 9 calibrators and 410 pairs of shoes? No! Each bundle is the maximum we can produce.
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SLOPE, PRODUCTION POSSIBILITIES CURVE The numerical value of the slope of the production possibilities curve, which illustrates the alternative combinations of two goods that an economy can produce with given resources and technology, is the opportunity cost of producing the good measured on the horizontal axis.
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