Practice Problem: Adam and Eve

ADAM and EVE
In the beginning there was a production possibility frontier.

Weekly Production

Adams’s PPF

Eve’s PPF

Fish

Rabbits

Fish

Rabbits

0

20

0

40

10

15

5

30

20

10

10

20

30

5

15

10

40

0

20

0

 

1. Plot Adam’s and Eve’s PPFs
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What might cause a change in Adam and/or Eve’s productive capacity?

 

  1. What might cause a decrease in productive capacity?