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    1. Land refers to all natural resources on, below, or above the earth's surface and is used to produce goods. It has no cost of production and is fixed and limited in supply. Types of land include residential, commercial, recreational, cultivation, and extraction land. 2. Labor is any human physical or mental effort that assists in production. It is a human factor of production applied by workers. Labor cannot be stored and no two types are the same. Types include unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled, and professional labor. 3. Capital refers to all man-made resources used in production, including factories, machinery, tools, equipment, and raw materials. It is a produced factor

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    1. Land refers to all natural resources on, below, or above the earth's surface and is used to produce goods. It has no cost of production and is fixed and limited in supply. Types of land include residential, commercial, recreational, cultivation, and extraction land. 2. Labor is any human physical or mental effort that assists in production. It is a human factor of production applied by workers. Labor cannot be stored and no two types are the same. Types include unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled, and professional labor. 3. Capital refers to all man-made resources used in production, including factories, machinery, tools, equipment, and raw materials. It is a produced factor

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    1. Land refers to all natural resources on, below, or above the earth's surface and is used to produce goods. It has no cost of production and is fixed and limited in supply. Types of land include residential, commercial, recreational, cultivation, and extraction land. 2. Labor is any human physical or mental effort that assists in production. It is a human factor of production applied by workers. Labor cannot be stored and no two types are the same. Types include unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled, and professional labor. 3. Capital refers to all man-made resources used in production, including factories, machinery, tools, equipment, and raw materials. It is a produced factor

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    Factors of Production

    1. Land- It refers to all natural resources. All natural resources either on the surface of the earth
    or below the surface of the earth or above the surface of the earth is Land.

    One uses the land to produces goods. It is the primary and natural factor of production. All gifts
    of nature such as rivers, oceans, land, climate, mountains, mines, forests etc. are land.

    The payment for land is rent.

    Characteristics of Land as a Factor of Production

    The land is a free gift of nature.

    The land has no cost of production.

    It is immobile.

    The land is fixed and limited in supply.

    Types of Land

    Residential

    Commercial

    Recreation

    Cultivation

    Extraction

    Uninhabitable

    Labor

    All human effort that assists in production is labour. This effort can be mental or physical. It is a
    human factor of production. It is the worker who applies their efforts, abilities, and skills to
    produce.

    The payment for labour is the wage.

    Characteristic

    It is a human factor.

    One cannot store labour.


    No two types of labour are the same.

    Types of Labor

    Unskilled

    Semi-skilled

    Skilled

    Professional

    Capital

    Capital refers to all manmade resources used in the production process. It is a produced factor
    of production. It includes factories, machinery, tools, equipment, raw materials, wealth etc.

    The payment for capital is interest.

    Characteristics

    Capital is a manmade factor of production.

    It is mobile.

    It is a passive factor of production.

    Types of Capital

    Fixed

    Working

    Venture

    Entrepreneur

    An entrepreneur is a person who brings other factors of production in one place. He uses them
    for the production process. He is the person who decides

    What to produce

    Where to produce

    How to produce

    A person who takes these decisions along with the associated risk is an entrepreneur.
    The payment for land is profit.

    Characteristics

    He has imagination.

    He has great administrative power.

    An entrepreneur must be a man of action.

    An entrepreneur must have the ability to organize.

    He should be a knowledgeable person.

    He must have a professional approach.

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