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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 points on a PPF are possible and efficient. Production points on a PPF represent efficient use of all of the economyâs resources. It is impossible to produce more of one product (measured on one axis) without producing less of the other product (measured on the other axis). Production points inside a PPF are possible, but inefficient.