ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Marginal Product, Production Function, Marginal Utility

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The ingredients that go into making a good or service are called factors of production. land labor. Capital (manufactured goods that are used to produce new goods) Factors of production are bought and sold in markets, in much the same way as the good they go into producing. The price of each factor is determined by supply and demand. Supply of factors of production comes from households(labors). Demand for factors of production comes from producers. Demand for factors of production is referred to as derived demand. In some cases, firms can choose what combination of factors to use, substituting one for another, in other cases, they cannot. Ex. farmers can choose to pick tomatoes by using many workers and no machinery, or few workers and more machinery. A baseball team cannot choose to reduce the number of players and increase the number of baseball bats. More production is possible by using more factors of production (production function is increasing).

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