Suppose that a politician tells you about a plan to create two expensive but necessary programs to build more production facilities for solar power and wind power. At the same time, the politician is unwilling to cut any other programs. Assuming the resources are already being efficiently used in other programs, where would the point the politician is trying to reach be on the production possibilities frontier?
What will be an ideal response?
a currently unattainable point
FEEDBACK:
Assuming that resources are already being efficiently used in other programs (i.e., there is nowhere to take money from other programs without affecting the program's success), and assuming that the politician cannot raise the funds from another source, then it will be impossible to build additional facilities for the solar and wind power programs. You are already at the frontier of the PPF and utilizing all of your resources efficiently. You can move along the frontier and create either more wind power or more solar power but not both. In order to create more of both, you would have to be at a point outside of the PPF, which is infeasible.
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