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Economics Explained: Production-Possibility Frontier. Whenever a company, factory, or even country decides to produce something, there is only so much they can make. A finite amount of capital (factories, production equipment, etc) and laborers exist, and they limit the possible amount of production. The production-possibility frontier, or PPF, is a graphical way of showing trade-offs in production choices between 2 items. If the United States decided tomorrow to produce as many loaves of bread as possible, there would be a limit to how many loaves were made.
Production possibility frontiers. An opportunity cost will usually arise whenever an economic agent chooses between alternative ways of allocating scarce resources. The opportunity cost of such a decision is the value of the next best alternative use of scarce resources. Opportunity cost can be illustrated by using production possibility frontiers (PPFs) which provide a simple, yet powerful tool to illustrate the effects of making an economic choice. A PPF shows all the possible combinations of two goods, or two options available at one point in time.