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Productive inefficiency

When output occurs at a cost higher than minimum average cost (any point other than the lowest point on the average cost curve) and at a point where some resources are not utilised (and point within and not on the PPF)

Below are a set of diagrams to illustrate when individual firms and the economy are producing at a productively inefficient point and therefore costs are not being minimised.

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