Instructional Video3:18
Jacob Clifford

Production Possibilities Curve and Opportunity Cost

11th - 12th Standards
What happens when the resources used as part of a production possibilities curve are not easily adaptable to produce both goods? Watch as an economics instructor uses an example of an economy producing pizzas and robots in...
Instructional Video4:36
Jacob Clifford

Graphing Practice

11th - 12th Standards
Help your class members make sense of the different graphs in economics, from aggregate demand and supply to the phillips curve, production possibilities curve, and business cycle.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Production Possibilities Frontier: Growth Through Investment

9th - 10th
How investing for capital formation can expand the Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF).
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Allocative Efficiency and Marginal Benefit

9th - 10th
Video lecture discusses marginal utility and maximization. [14:10]
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Khan Academy: Production Possibilities Frontier: Opportunity Cost

9th - 10th
Opportunity cost (and marginal cost) based on the PPF. This is an direction of economics based on tradeoffs in an area of fixed resources. [5:49]
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Khan Academy: Production Possibilities Frontier: Increasing Opportunity Cost

9th - 10th
Discusses why the opportunity cost may increase as you move from one scenario to another. [6:05]
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Khan Academy: Production Possibilities Frontier

9th - 10th
A video discussing the tradeoffs for a hunter and a gatherer in terms of production possibilities on the frontier. Video analyzes the tradeoff in gain of food versus time spent getting that food. [10:58]
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Khan Academy: Economic Models

9th - 10th
Economic models are a way of taking complicated ideas and events and breaking them down into their most important characteristics. In this video, learn more about the role that models play in economics, and the importance of the...
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Khan Academy: Demand Curve as Marginal Benefit Curve

9th - 10th
To get a better intuition about how much a consumer values a good in a market, we think of demand as a marginal benefit curve. In this video, we look at the demand curve from a marginal benefit framework. [5:53]