EconomicsCode 9708

Factors of production

What this topic asks you to be able to do

  • what the factors of production are and how they are defined: land, labour, capital and enterprise
  • the ways in which human capital differs from physical capital
  • the returns earned by each of the factors of production
  • the division of labour alongside specialisation
  • the part played by the entrepreneur in modern economies: bearing risk and organising the remaining factors of production