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by William M. Pride, All chapter 1 - 47

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origin, then opportunity cost is increasing. The reason for this is that as we add more resources t
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o the production of, for example, pizza, we are using fewer resources to produce soda. Compou
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a, we are moving workers who are worse at pizza production and better at soda production than t
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hose moved in the previous stage. This means that the increase in pizza production is diminishin
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g and the loss in soda production is increasing. An economist would call this an example of incre
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asing opportunity cost. If the production possibilities frontier is a straight line that is not bowed
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