advantage in snowboard production (the good on the horizontal axis) because its production possibilities curve is the flattest of the three curves Figure 2.5 The Combined Production Possibilities Curve for Alpine Sports The curve shown combines the production possibilities curves for each plant At point A, Alpine Sports produces 350 pairs of skis per month and no snowboards If the firm wishes to increase snowboard production, it will first use Plant 3, which has a comparative advantage in snowboards Plant 3’s comparative advantage in snowboard production makes a crucial point about the nature of comparative advantage It need not imply that a particular plant is especially good at an activity In our example, all three plants are equally good at snowboard production Plant 3, though, is the least efficient of the three in ski production Alpine thus gives up fewer skis Attributed to Libby Rittenberg and Timothy Tregarthen Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books/ Saylor.org 71