Guns Not Butter
My professor assigned us to watch The West Wing (the entire fourth season, in fact) for my politics class. For me to mention that that's a lot of TV to surprise us with, Mr-I-Don't-Have-a-Course-Outline! would be beside the point.
The point is that there is an episode called "Guns Not Butter", which refers to the Production Possibilities Boundary in economics. In the typical graph, guns (representing military expenditures) are depicted on the x-axis and butter (representing civilian expenditures) are on the y-axis. The PPB (as it is known) represents scarcity, choice, and opportunity costs.
Because I took four years of university, I can understand West Wing episode titles. However, my brain is too fried from mainlining episodes for me to remember what actually happened in them.
The point is that there is an episode called "Guns Not Butter", which refers to the Production Possibilities Boundary in economics. In the typical graph, guns (representing military expenditures) are depicted on the x-axis and butter (representing civilian expenditures) are on the y-axis. The PPB (as it is known) represents scarcity, choice, and opportunity costs.
Because I took four years of university, I can understand West Wing episode titles. However, my brain is too fried from mainlining episodes for me to remember what actually happened in them.