If a country must decrease current consumption to increase the amount of capital goods it produces today, then it must

A) be using resources inefficiently today, but will be more efficient in the future.
B) be producing along the production possibilities frontier today and its production possibilities frontier will shift outward if it produces more capital goods.
C) must be producing outside the production possibilities frontier and will continue to do so in the future.
D) must not have private ownership of property and will have to follow planning authorities' decisions today and in the future.


Answer: B) be producing along the production possibilities frontier today and its production possibilities frontier will shift outward if it produces more capital goods.

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