Economic Growth, PPF, and the Tradeoff Between Capital and Consumer Goods

production possibility frontier-a curve showing the combination of two goods or services that can be produced using all available resources
There has to be a combination of capital and consumer goods you cant just make one or the other. capital goods are investing in the future and consumer goods you can use now.

potential GDP is the amount an economy can produce when using all available resources.
you can achieve economic growth by the following
  • Increase in Natural resources
  • increase in real capital
  • increase in technology
  • quantity and quality of labour- you can improve the quantity and quality of labour by
    • increasing the population
    • increase human capital
    • increase the labour productivity

Dr. Stephanie Powers, "Unemployment", Intro to Macroeconomics.(Lecture, Donald School of Business, Red Deer Alberta, Winter 2012)