微观经济 原理5 贸易可以使每个人都获益课件.pptVIP

* If you just covered Chapter 2, point out to your students that the U.S. PPF here is the same as in the Chapter 2 PowerPoint. Warn students that, in a few moments, they will be asked to derive Japan’s PPF. They will need to follow the same steps that you are about to show for deriving the U.S. PPF. * Deriving the intercepts, or endpoints of the PPF: The U.S. has 50,000 labor hours. It takes 100 hours to produce a computer. If the U.S. uses all its labor to produce computers, then it will produce 50,000/100 = 500 computers. Hence, the horizontal intercept is (500 computers, 0 wh