Cards (8)

  • Factors of production
    • Land
    • Labour
    • Capital
    • Enterprise
  • Capital
    Physical: goods which can be used in the production process. Fixed: Machines; buildings. Working: finished or semi-finished consumer goods
  • Entrepreneurship

    Managerial ability. The entrepreneur is someone who takes risks, innovates, and uses the factors of production. Resources are drawn together into the production process.
  • Reward/Incentive for Capital
    Interest from the investment
  • Reward/Incentive for Entrepreneurship
    Profit- an incentive to take risks
  • Land
    Natural resources such as oil, coal, wheat, water. It can also be the physical space for fixed capital.
  • Labour
    Human capital, which is the workforce of the economy.
  • Specialisation
    When each worker completes a specific task in a production process