Y1 2) Production Possibility Curves - PPCs / PPFs
Summary
TLDREl script explora las curvas de posibilidades de producción (PPF), una herramienta esencial en economía para ilustrar la escasez y las elecciones. Se explica cómo las PPF pueden mostrar la producción máxima de bienes y servicios con recursos fijos, y cómo estas curvas concavas representan el principio del coste de oportunidad creciente. Además, se discuten los tipos de eficiencia: productiva, alocativa y pareto, y se presentan estrategias para aumentar la producción, como mejorar el uso de los factores de producción, reasignarlos o cambiar la curva PPF a través de la mejora en la cantidad y calidad de estos.
Takeaways
- 📈 La curva de posibilidades de producción (PPF) es una herramienta útil para ilustrar la escasez y las elecciones en economía, tanto desde una perspectiva micro como macro.
- 🔍 En el nivel micro, la PPF muestra la producción máxima posible de dos bienes o servicios con un nivel dado de factores de producción, y las distintas combinaciones de estos.
- 🌐 En el nivel macro, la PPF indica la producción máxima de todos los bienes y servicios que se pueden producir con los factores de producción en la economía.
- 🔄 La forma de la PPF revela el costo de oportunidad de producir bienes y servicios; una curva cóncava indica el principio del costo de oportunidad creciente.
- 📊 Una PPF lineal ilustra un costo de oportunidad constante, mientras que una PPF cóncava representa un costo de oportunidad creciente.
- 🛠️ Hay tres tipos de eficiencia en la PPF: productiva, alocativa y pareto. Cada punto en la curva es productivamente eficiente.
- 🚫 Cualquier punto dentro de la curva es productivamente ineficiente, lo que puede representar el desempleo de factores de producción.
- ❓ La eficiencia alocativa no se puede determinar solo con una PPF, ya que depende de la demanda de los consumidores.
- 👥 La eficiencia pareto se logra cuando no se puede mejorar la situación de alguien sin empeorar la de otro; cualquier punto en la curva es pareto eficiente.
- 📚 Para aumentar la producción en una PPF, se pueden mejorar los factores de producción, reasignarlos o incluso desplazar la curva de PPF.
- 🔄 El desplazamiento de la curva de PPF puede ocurrir de manera que favorezca la producción de un bien sobre otro, dependiendo de mejoras específicas en los factores de producción.
Q & A
¿Qué son las curvas de posibilidad de producción o fronteras de posibilidad de producción?
-Las curvas de posibilidad de producción, también conocidas como fronteras de posibilidad de producción, son herramientas útiles en economía para ilustrar las ideas de escasez y elección. Muestran las distintas combinaciones de dos bienes o servicios que se pueden producir con un nivel dado de factores de producción.
¿Cómo se muestran las fronteras de posibilidad de producción a nivel micro y macro?
-A nivel micro, la curva muestra la producción máxima posible de dos bienes o servicios específicos con un nivel dado de factores de producción. A nivel macro, la curva representa la producción máxima posible de todos los bienes y servicios en la economía con los factores de producción disponibles.
¿Qué concepto económico se ilustra a través de la forma de la curva de posibilidad de producción?
-La forma de la curva de posibilidad de producción ilustra el concepto de costo opuesto, que sigue la ley del costo opuesto creciente, lo que significa que a medida que se produce más de un bien o servicio, se debe renunciar a más unidades del otro bien o servicio.
¿Cómo se puede demostrar el costo opuesto en una curva de posibilidad de producción?
-El costo opuesto se demuestra observando el cambio en la producción de un bien al aumentar la producción de otro. Por ejemplo, si una empresa pasa de producir 50 a 60 tabletas, y para eso tiene que reducir la producción de portátiles de 75 a 60, el costo opuesto de esa decisión es la pérdida de 15 portátiles.
¿Qué tipos de eficiencia se pueden identificar en una curva de posibilidad de producción?
-En una curva de posibilidad de producción se pueden identificar tres tipos de eficiencia: la eficiencia productiva, que se refiere a la utilización total de los factores de producción; la eficiencia alociativa, que depende de si lo producido satisface la demanda del consumidor; y la eficiencia de Pareto, donde no se puede mejorar la situación de alguien sin empeorar la de otro.
¿Qué puntos de una curva de posibilidad de producción representan eficiencia productiva?
-Cualquier punto en la curva de posibilidad de producción representa eficiencia productiva, ya que se están utilizando todos los factores de producción al máximo nivel posible sin desperdiciarlos.
¿Cómo se puede aumentar la producción en una curva de posibilidad de producción?
-La producción se puede aumentar mejorando la utilización de los factores de producción, reasignando los factores de producción para especializarse en la producción de un bien o servicio específico, o aumentando la cantidad y/o calidad de los factores de producción para desplazar la curva hacia adelante.
¿Qué sucede si una empresa se encuentra en un punto dentro de la curva de posibilidad de producción?
-Si una empresa se encuentra en un punto dentro de la curva, está en una situación de ineficiencia productiva, ya que no está maximizando el uso de sus factores de producción y hay desperdicio o paro de estos.
¿Cómo se puede identificar si una producción es eficiente alocativamente?
-La eficiencia alocativa no se puede determinar solo con una curva de posibilidad de producción, ya que depende de si lo producido satisface la demanda del consumidor. Se necesita conocer la demanda para evaluar la eficiencia alocativa.
¿Qué significa la eficiencia de Pareto en el contexto de una curva de posibilidad de producción?
-La eficiencia de Pareto significa que cualquier punto en la curva es un punto en el que no se puede mejorar la situación de alguien sin empeorar la de otro. Cualquier movimiento fuera de ese punto hará que alguien quede peor, lo que indica que no se puede reorganizar la producción de una manera que beneficie a todos sin perjudicar a alguien.
¿Cómo se puede desplazar la curva de posibilidad de producción para aumentar la producción de un bien específico?
-La curva de posibilidad de producción se puede desplazar mejorando la cantidad o calidad de los factores de producción que son específicos para la producción de ese bien. Por ejemplo, podría ser la adquisición de maquinaria nueva o la capacitación de los trabajadores para producir más eficientemente ese bien.
Outlines
📈 Curvas de Posibilidad de Producción
Esta sección del guion de video explica el concepto de las curvas de posibilidad de producción (PPF) desde una perspectiva micro y macroeconómica. Las PPF son herramientas importantes para ilustrar la escasez y las elecciones en economía. A nivel micro, muestran la producción máxima de dos bienes o servicios con un nivel dado de factores de producción, y a nivel macro, lo mismo pero para todos los bienes y servicios de la economía. La curva concava de la PPF ilustra el principio del costo oportuno creciente, que indica que cuanto más se produce de un bien, más se debe renunciar a otro. Se discute cómo se puede aumentar la producción mediante la realocación de recursos y la especialización en la producción de un bien, como los tabletas en el ejemplo dado.
📉 Costo Oportuno y Eficiencia en las PPF
En este párrafo se profundiza en el concepto de costo oportuno, mostrando cómo una curva de posibilidad de producción (PPF) concava revela el principio del costo oportuno creciente. Se ilustra con un ejemplo de una empresa que produce tabletas y portátiles, y cómo la decisión de aumentar la producción de tabletas conlleva a una mayor pérdida de producción de portátiles. Además, se introducen los tipos de eficiencia en las PPF: productiva, alocaiva y pareto, y se explica cómo se identifican en el gráfico, señalando que cualquier punto en la curva es productivamente eficiente, mientras que los puntos dentro de la curva representan una ineficiencia productiva.
🔄 Formas de Aumentar la Producción en una PPF
El tercer párrafo explora las diferentes maneras de aumentar la producción en una curva de posibilidad de producción (PPF). Se mencionan tres enfoques: mejorar el uso de los factores de producción para alcanzar la eficiencia productiva, realocar los factores de producción para especializarse en la producción de un bien específico, y aumentar la cantidad o calidad de los factores de producción para desplazar la curva de PPF hacia adelante, permitiendo una mayor producción de bienes sin renunciar a otros. Se enfatiza la importancia de la mejora en la cantidad y calidad de los factores de producción como un medio para desplazar la curva y aumentar la producción de manera sostenible.
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Keywords
💡Frontera de posibilidades de producción
💡Oportunidad de coste
💡Ley del coste de oportunidad creciente
💡Eficiencia productiva
💡Eficiencia alocativa
💡Eficiencia de Pareto
💡Desplazamiento de la curva de la PPF
💡Factores de producción
💡Especialización
💡Ineficiencia productiva
Highlights
Production possibility frontiers (PPFs) illustrate the concept of scarcity and choice in economics.
PPFs can be analyzed from both micro and macro perspectives.
A micro PPF shows the maximum possible production of two goods or services with given factors of production.
A macro PPF indicates the maximum possible production of all goods and services in an economy.
PPFs can demonstrate concepts like opportunity cost and efficiency.
The shape of a PPF reveals the opportunity cost of producing goods and services.
A concave PPF indicates the law of increasing opportunity cost.
A linear PPF would illustrate constant opportunity cost.
Three types of efficiency can be discussed with PPFs: productive, allocative, and Pareto efficiency.
Productive efficiency means using all factors of production to their maximum level.
Allocative efficiency is about satisfying consumer demand, which cannot be determined solely by a PPF.
Pareto efficiency means no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
Ways to increase production on a PPF include better use of factors of production, reallocation, and shifting the curve.
Shifting the PPF curve can occur by increasing the quantity and/or quality of factors of production.
A specialized improvement in factors of production can shift the PPF curve favoring one good over another.
PPFs are useful tools for illustrating various economic concepts on both micro and macro levels.
Transcripts
hi everybody production possibility
frontiers or production possibility
curves are very useful tools to
illustrate the ideas of scarcity and
choice in economics these curves are
great because we can look at them from a
micro perspective and from a macro
perspective what does the curve or the
frontier actually show well on a micro
level it shows us two things the maximum
possible production of two goods or
services
that can be produced with a given level
of factors of production but it also
tells us the curve the various
combination of two goods and services
that can be produced with a given level
of factors of production if we make this
macro what does a macro ppf tell us well
the curve tells us the maximum possible
production of all goods and services
that can be produced with the level of
factors of production in the economy and
it also tells us again the various
combinations of all goods and services
that can be produced with given factors
of production in the economy
so there you go that's what the curve
actually represents the actual boundary
now the beauty of these diagrams of
these curves is that we can show
concepts like opportunity cost like
efficiency we can understand how
production can be increased of goods and
services as well so let's start by
looking at how we can illustrate the
concept of opportunity cost on pps or
ppcs
well the shape of a ppf can tell us
about the opportunity cost of producing
goods and services let's have a look at
this micro ppf how do we know it's micro
well because we're looking at two
specific goods in this case we're
looking at a firm who can produce either
laptops or tablets the curve tells us
the maximum possible production of both
laptops and tablets this firm can't
produce beyond the curve but it also
tells us the various combinations of
laptops and tablets can be produced
depending on how this firm uses their
factors of production so let's
understand how we can look at
opportunity cost from this ppf well
let's say that this firm is currently
producing a and that gives a combination
of let's say 50 tablets and 75
laptops let's say this firm wants to
specialize and produce more tablets they
want to increase tablet production from
50 to 60 i reallocate factors of
production to increase
tablets well you can see here that as
they move from point a to point b on
this ppf and they produce 10 more
tablets they have to give up some
laptops and let's say that they have
given up 16 laptops so from 75 to 60.
the opportunity cost of producing 10
more tablets from 50 to 60 is the 15
units of laptops that have been
forgotten but let's say that this
company this firm wants to produce 10
more tablets so to go from 60 to 70
tablets i.e to move from point b to
point c on the ppf again they are
reallocating scarce resources
reallocating their factors of production
to suit more tablet production but can
you see that they are giving up more
laptops to do that let's say that they
are now reduced laptop production from
60 to 30. so the same 10 unit increase
in tablets has now meant a greater
opportunity cost 30 units of laptops
have to be given up to produce the same
10 unit increase in tablets
so a ppf curve that's drawn like this
concave indicates the law of increasing
opportunity cost the more that we
produce of something the more of the
other thing that has to be given up each
time
so a 10 unit increase in tablets each
time means that more units of laptops
have to be given up in each case that's
the law of increasing opportunity cost
you can see here on a micro level
if we did the same exercise here on a
macro ppf we would show the same thing
now what differentiates a micro ppf to a
macro ppf well on a macro diagram you
would change the labeling on the access
to goods and services because nothing
else nothing else can be produced in an
economy so if we label our access like
this it indicates a macro ppf the other
option for macro is to go consumer goods
and capital goods and that indicates
we're looking at the entire economy here
but again any ppf drone concave
illustrates the law of increasing
opportunity cost what what does that
actually mean well let's go back to a
micro level here it means for a business
as they move towards heavy
specialization in tablets it means that
their factors of production are actually
more suitable towards laptop production
down here on the ppf because they're
increasing their production of tablets
by the same amount but they're giving up
more and more and more laptops by doing
so that means that their factors of
production down here on the curve are
much more suited towards laptop
production which is why when they
produce more tablet tablets they're
giving up significantly more laptops
whereas over here on the curve you can
see that to produce more laptops they
have to give up more and more and more
tablets that's because here factors of
production are much more suited towards
tablet production than they are towards
a laptop production that's the basic
idea
as we move further and further along the
curve factors of production are more
suitable towards one thing than they are
towards another thing that explains why
we have concave pps where we see the law
of increasing opportunity cost takes
place what about if we draw the ppf
differently
well let's have a look at my macro
diagram here it doesn't matter that i've
done it on my macro diagram the same
concept applies even on a micro ppf but
if we draw our ppf linear downward
sloping and linear like this it
illustrates constant opportunity cost
let's take the same 10 unit increase now
in services though so 10 unit increase
each time you can see that the
opportunity cost the units of goods that
are being given up are the same in each
case 20 units from 50 to 60 services and
20 units of goods from 60 to 70 services
and that will continue i went from 70 to
80 then the decrease would be from 60 to
40. the same basic concept here so a
linear ppf illustrates constant
opportunity cost whereas a concave ppf
represents increasing opportunity cost
let's understand how we can show
efficiency now on ppf's there are three
types of efficiency that we can talk
about when we draw ppf curves productive
efficiency allocative efficiency and
pareto efficiency let's look at those on
a ppf diagram well you can see that i
put five points on both a micro and the
macro ppf let's look at points a b and c
points a b and c are on the curve in
each case
any point on the curve is productively
efficient productive efficiency in this
case simply is using up all factors of
production to their maximum level so
we're getting maximum production from
all of the factors of production
available there is no waste of them
there is no unemployment of them so any
point on the curve is productively
efficient that's very important by
definition therefore point d
any point inside the curve is
productively inefficient we are wasting
our factors of production we're not
getting maximum use of those so that
would be a very inefficient point of
production productive inefficiency in
both cases here
what does point e represent point e is
unattainable with our given factors of
production this firm on a micro sense
can only produce at a point on the curve
they can't produce beyond the curve at
point e
yet with the given factors of production
so a b and c productive efficiency any
point on the curve is productively
efficient any point within the curve
inside the curve is productively
inefficient where we are not maximizing
the use of our factors of production we
are wasting them
on a macro level point d can be known as
unemployment yeah so if we're not
maximizing the use of our factors of
production in an economy that might mean
unemployment of labor unemployment of
capital so you can consider point d as
unemployment on a macro level there
what about allocative efficiency
allocative efficiency is whether what's
being produced is satisfying consumer
demand the satisfying consumer wants a
very very important concept given the
basic economic problem we cannot tell
from a ppf diagram if allocative
efficiency is being met because we don't
know about consumer demand so is point b
here allocatively efficient is this
combination of laptops and tablets being
produced allocatively efficient we don't
know if this is not efficient if all
that society wants all that consumers
want a laptop that then is not
allocatively efficient allocative
efficiency would be there wouldn't it
whereas if society only wanted tablets
to be produced allocative efficiency
would be there at my finger on the ppf
so we don't know about allocative
efficiency from a ppf we need to know
consumer demand so that's a very
important thing to remember when drawing
these curves what is pareto efficiency
pareto efficiency is the idea that
nobody can be made better off without
making somebody else worse off
any point on the ppf is pareto efficient
let's take point b here because if we
change point b let's say you change
point b to point c we are producing more
tablets but we are giving up laptops
therefore we're making people who like
tablets better off but we're making
people who like laptops worse soft
because lesser produced it's also pareto
efficient because if we went the other
way let's say to point a people who like
laptops are better off because more is
produced for people who like tablets or
worse off because less tablets are
produced any point on the curve is
pareto efficient because any movement
away somebody is made worse off by
making somebody else better off
so these are the fundamental concepts of
efficiencies that we can take from a ppf
fantastic how about looking at how to
increase production on a ppf let's look
at that next there are numerous ways of
showing how production can be increased
on a ppf i'm going to focus on my micro
example here where we have a business
that can make either laptops or tablets
the same concepts apply on a macro ppf
as well so let's say that this business
in each case wants to increase tablet
production there are three ways we can
show that on a ppf let's say this
business is currently operating at point
d at a productively inefficient point
and a pareto inefficient point here
inside the curve at point d they are not
maximizing the use of their factors of
production there is some unemployment of
them here well one thing they could do
if that's what they are producing is use
their factors of production better so
use labor better if there's any
unemployment of labor in the business
use up labor same with idle capital use
it up to increase production let's say
from point d to point b and therefore we
get more tablets being produced so
they're producing at any point inside
the curve use factors of production
better to increase production that's one
option but let's say this business is
already on the curve they're already
productively efficient and pareto
efficient what could they do well let's
say they're at point b here what could
they do well they could reallocate the
use of their factors of production they
could re-employ factors of production to
specialize more in tablet production so
maybe they were producing i don't know
50 units of tablets at point b
well to get to 70 units of tablets what
could they do they could move factors of
production away from producing laptops
to an extent and towards producing
tablets instead so reallocating factors
of production let's say they were
producing a point a and only 25 tablets
were being produced well again they
could re-allocate their factors of
production towards producing more
tablets maybe moving from a
to b and then from b
to c so they can move along their ppf to
favor tablet production by reallocating
their factors of production so maybe
moving workers away from producing
laptops towards producing tablets moving
machines away from producing laptops
towards producing tablets
another option they have is not
necessarily just to move along the curve
and reallocate their factors of
production re-employ them but instead to
try and shift the ppf curve
now if they shift shifted the ppf curve
they can move from point x where maybe
they were producing 50 units of tablets
to point y where now they can produce 70
units of tablets but the beauty of
shifting the curve is that they don't
need to necessarily give up laptops to
do so you can see here that a point x
again let's put the same numbers maybe
50 laptops have been produced at a point
y even more laptops can also be produced
as well as there being more tablets
being produced so how can this curve be
shifted what could a business do well
very simply very generically they can
increase the quantity and or the quality
of their factors of production
the memory device here to help you just
think q square this cell the quantity
and quality of our factors of production
capital enterprise land and labor so a
business maybe could find a way to
increase either the quantity of the
factors of production or the quality of
their factors of production so what can
this business do well they could
increase the quantity of labor bring in
more workers that could increase
production possibilities and shift the
curve from ppf1 to ppf2
they could increase the quality of their
labor increase the productivity of
labour how by training them up better
that will increase productivity and
allow workers to produce more in a given
time period they could increase the
quantity of capital bring in more
machinery or improve the quality of
their capital maintain their machinery
upgrade their machinery they could
increase the quantity of land if that's
an option
maybe not so much for for this kind of
business but if it's
an agricultural related business
increasing land can mean more crops can
be produced so increasing the quantity
and the quality of factors of production
allows the ppf curve to shift which is
another way in which you can show
increasing production but the curve
doesn't just have to shift in this way
it is possible to see a ppf curve shift
like this where the curve shifts
favoring only one of the goods instead
of the other one so in this case the
shift is favoring the production of
tablets not the production of laptops
and all that's happened here is that
there has been a change in the quantity
and or the quality of factors of
production that purely suit the
production of tablets so maybe it's an
increase in the quantity of labor but
those workers can only produce tablets
they are no good at producing laptops
maybe it's an improvement in the quality
of labor so the productivity of labor
but only in the production of tablets
maybe it's an increase in the quantity
of capital but only machinery that can
produce tablets or the quality of
capital that can only produce tablets
you get the idea so an improvement in
the quantity and or the quality of
factors of production which is
specialized in the production in this
case of tablets then you can get a shift
which is not even which is not parallel
it favors the production of one good
over the other one so that covers this
entire topic area of ppf so you can see
just how useful pps are on a micro level
and a macro level in showing us so many
different concepts in economics thank
you so much for watching guys make sure
you stay tuned for the next video
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