of the PPF from A to B is relatively flat, representing a relatively small drop-off in health and a relatively large

gain in education.

Now consider the other end, at the lower right, of the production possibilities frontier. Imagine that society

starts at choice D, which is devoting nearly all resources to education and very few to healthcare, and moves to

point F, which is devoting allspending to education and none to healthcare. For the sake of concreteness, you

can imagine that in the movement from D to F, the last few doctors must become high school science teachers,

the last few nurses must become school librarians rather than dispensers of vaccinations, and the last few

emergency rooms are turned into kindergartens. The gains to education from adding these last few resources
to education are very small. However, the opportunity cost lost to health will be fairly large, and thus the slope
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