Using production possibility frontiers

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1) Using production possibility frontiers, illustrate the effects of a) an increase in total resources; b) an improvement in the technology for producing one of the goods under consideration; c) a simultaneous improvement in the technologies for producing both of the goods under consideration. Explain your diagrams in words.

2) Discuss the alleged relationship between the Protestant Reformation and the rise of capitalism.

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