I. Production Possibilities For each of the following situations, show how you would represent the production or production possibilities change experienced by the country. Start out by drawing a PPF for the country with agricultural goods in the horizontal axis and manufactured goods on the vertical axis and with the assumption that resources are not identical in production. a) Show how you would represent the impact Hurricane Dorian had on the Jacksonville area. Explain briefly why you believe your picture changes in the way you illustrated. b) Show the effect that a prolonged drought. Explain briefly why you believe your picture changes in the way you illustrated. c) Economic statistics indicate that unemployment in Spain has risen from 8.6% in the first quarter of 2018 to 25.02% in the fourth quarter of 2018. Show how you would represent the impact of this dramatic increase in unemployment in Spain. Explain briefly why you believe your picture changes in the way you illustrated.
I. Production Possibilities For each of the following situations, show how you would represent the production or production possibilities change experienced by the country. Start out by drawing a PPF for the country with agricultural goods in the horizontal axis and manufactured goods on the vertical axis and with the assumption that resources are not identical in production. a) Show how you would represent the impact Hurricane Dorian had on the Jacksonville area. Explain briefly why you believe your picture changes in the way you illustrated. b) Show the effect that a prolonged drought. Explain briefly why you believe your picture changes in the way you illustrated. c) Economic statistics indicate that unemployment in Spain has risen from 8.6% in the first quarter of 2018 to 25.02% in the fourth quarter of 2018. Show how you would represent the impact of this dramatic increase in unemployment in Spain. Explain briefly why you believe your picture changes in the way you illustrated.
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I. Production Possibilities
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For each of the following situations, show how you would represent the production or production
possibilities change experienced by the country. Start out by drawing a PPF for the country with
agricultural goods in the horizontal axis and manufactured goods on the vertical axis and with the
assumption that resources are not identical in production.
a)
Show how you would represent the impact Hurricane Dorian had on the Jacksonville area. Explain
briefly why you believe your picture changes in the way you illustrated.
b) Show the effect that a prolonged drought. Explain briefly why you believe your picture changes in
the way you illustrated.
c)
Economic statistics indicate that unemployment in Spain has risen from 8.6% in the first quarter of
2018 to 25.02% in the fourth quarter of 2018. Show how you would represent the impact of this
dramatic increase in unemployment in Spain. Explain briefly why you believe your picture changes
in the way you illustrated.
d) Congress is curren onsidering a new immigrati policy that would allow people with the
entrepreneurial skills and the money to start new businesses permission to emigrate to the U.S. if
they start a business in this country that employs at least 5 U.S. workers. Show how you would
represent the impact of this policy on the U.S. Explain briefly why you believe your picture
changes in the way you illustrated.
II. Gains from Trade
Suppose the following table provides the production possibilities for the only two countries in the world.
These two countries can produce only these two goods. Assume resources are identical in production.
Use this information to show how trade benefits the world and the two individual countries. Also
assume the countries are able to produce with no idle resources and no production mistakes (Use a ruler
to draw PPFs, you only need two panel (one for each county) to answer the entire question).
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