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Micro Foundations · intermediate

War destroys capital

What moves on the Production Possibility Frontier diagram

  • PPFshifts left (large)

Destroying productive resources shifts the whole PPF inward, the mirror image of growth.

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Step by step

  1. 1

    Start on the frontier.

  2. 2

    Conflict destroys factories and infrastructure, the economy's resource base shrinks.

  3. 3

    The frontier collapses inward: every attainable bundle is now poorer.

Where this shows up

Examiners ask this as: war destruction, disaster capital, frontier inward, resources destroyed.

Other scenarios on Production Possibility Frontier

Technology boom in one industry →Broad economic growth →