EQ: What are the 4 factors of production?
Agenda
1. Lecture: 4 Factors of Production
2. NPR Story on Raves—applying the 4 factors
3. Practice MCs
4. If time later—The Lorax
 a.k.a. Resources used to make CONSUMER g/s
 Land
 Labor
 Capital
 Entrepreneurship
 All natural resources
 Oil, water, cows, coal, natural gas
 Rent=income earned from land
 Paid human effort
 Teachers, associate attorney working for a firm,
doctors working for a hospital, fast-food manager
 Wages=income earned from labor resources
 Physical capital—man made resources used to produce
other goods/services.
 Computers, factory machinery, office buildings,
airplanes
 Human Capital--Knowledge and skills obtained from
education, on-the-job training, and experience.
 Examples—K-12 education, college, technical school, training
videos
 Interest=income earned
from capital resources
 Investment in physical and human capital resources
increases future growth in the economy!!!!!
 NOT FINANCIAL CAPITAL—stocks, bonds, money
Must fulfill BOTH
 Risk-taker
 Combine the other factors to make/sell a product
 What is the money called that an entrepreneur makes?
 http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/08/12/338320
513/its-sunrise-in-london-and-time-for-a-rave
 What 4 factors of production are involved in creating
Morning Gloryville?
 List at least one resource for each factor that goes into
making Cheerios.
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What was the main resource that was scarce?
List each of the four factors of production. Give
multiple examples from The Lorax for each of the
factors.
Do you think that entrepreneurs act like the
Onceler?
Did a market style economy work for the
community? Why or why not?
Could the government have improved the market
style economy in Oncelerville? If not, why? If so,
how?
a.goods that are bought by individuals and used to
provide personal enjoyment.
b.goods that are bought by businesses to produce
productive resources.
c. productive resources used to produce goods and
services.
d.productive resources used by government to increase
the productivity of consumption.
e.goods and services produced by the economy.
A. land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship
B. land, buildings, capital, and entrepreneurship
C. labor, machines, buildings, capital, and
entrepreneurship
D. forests, fish, buildings, capital, and entrepreneurship
E. Labor, money, stocks, and bonds
a.land
b.labor
c. capital
d.entrepreneurship
e.land if undeveloped and capital if developed
a.large amount of machinery and equipment.
b.large number of people and a great deal of land.
c. highly skilled and educated labor force.
d.large number of kind and generous humans.
e.large amount of machinery (capital) that is run by
people (humans).
i. $1,000 in money
ii. 100 shares of Microsoft stock
iii. $10,000 in bonds issued by General Motors
iv. A drill press in your local machine shop
a. i and ii.
b. ii only.
c. iii only.
d.iv only.
e. ii and iii.
a.rent, mortgage, interest, and bonds.
b.rent, interest, bonds, and profit or loss.
c. rent, wages, interest, and profit or loss.
d.rent, wages, profit or loss, and bonus.
e.land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.