A farmer can feed any combination of animals within the following range: Pigs Cows 84 12 75 15 Given the option available to him, what is the opportunity cost to the farmer of rearing one cow? Figure below presents a production-possibility frontier for food and clothing. What is the opportunity cost of increasing food production from 0 to 2 million units, from 2 million to 4 million units, and from 4 million to 6 million units? What is happening to the opportunity cost of increasing food production from 0 to 6 million units? Explain how the shape of the production-possibility frontier implies increasing costs for the production of clothing.

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Welfare Analysis

Welfare analysis of the society is related to welfare economics. From the economic point of view former welfare economics refers to that subject which uses the techniques of microeconomics to analyse and evaluate the welfare at the economic or aggregate level.