The typical concave (i.e., bowed-out)shape of the production possibilities frontier reflects the law of increasing opportunity cost.

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The concave shape of the production possibilities frontier shows increasing opportunity cost which means that as we produce more of one good, the opportunity cost of producing that good increases in terms of the foregone production of the other good. This is known as the law of increasing opportunity cost.

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