Production factors - 3 ESO - Contenido educativo
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This unit is devoted to studying economic activity: components and sectors that comprises it, and economic agents.
Hello students, this is the first video I'm projecting. In this first video I'm addressing
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the production factors. I'm addressing the information you have on page 86, 87 and 88
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of your book. But before I address production factors, it's important you remember what
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we've seen in class, which is the basic components of economic activities. If you remember, there
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three basic components of any economic activity, which are production,
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distribution, and consumption. I'm addressing production. We are not dealing
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with distribution, which remember is the transfer from producers, the transfer of
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goods or commodities from producers to consumers, and we are not dealing with
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consumption, which is the use of those goods. We are dealing with
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production and it's important you first of all remember there are three main
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production factors there are three main factors needed to produce to make any
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good any product any commodity which are natural resources capital and technology
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and finally labor you know we usually consider technology as part of capital
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and I'll explain why. But before that, let's get started by natural resources.
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The first production factor, the first factor we need to produce any good or
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product is natural resources. Natural resources are basically raw materials,
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are the materials, the elements provided by nature that have an economic use. And
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And there are two types of natural resources, which are renewable and non-renewable. The renewable natural resources are those natural resources or raw materials that can be renewed over a short period of time.
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Think, for example, about water. And non-renewable are those natural resources or raw materials that cannot be renewed over a short period of time. Think about oil, petroleum, for example.
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It's important I mention some of the main problems raised by resources within the context of our world, within the context of our economy.
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Those problems are overuse and some international conflicts related to the control of natural resources.
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Regarding the overuse of some natural resources, this is a very important problem today
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because if consumed at a higher rate than the renewable some resources can be
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exhausted that's the case for instance of oil of petroleum that's also the
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problem of coal coal carbon there are also problems which have to do with
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international conflicts because the desire to control limited natural
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resources oil for for example leads to worse and international conflicts today
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the second production factor we need to mention is capital and we are as I've
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told you we have included technology within the context of capital the first
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idea you must remember is that capital is the combination of non-natural
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resources needed to production in other words capital is what businesses and economic agents
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invest in order to produce any good any commodity product and so on um we usually say there are
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three types of capital physical capital this could be physical capital the factories and the machinery
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used to produce here you can see an image second type of capital is financial capital here the
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financial capital is the money economic agents companies businesses usually borrow from from
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banks and they used to invest to buy machines to buy factories and to hire labor and labor
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could be the third type of capital labor could be human capital by labor I mean I
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simply mean the workers hired to work in a company in a factory and of course we
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must include here as I've said technology and technology is the
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combination of knowledge methods and procedures used in the production
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factors. Somehow technology is part of the factories and machinery. Finally, and
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this is very important, the last production factor is labor. I could say
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actually is the most important production factor. Labor is the physical
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or also intellectual effort made by people in order to produce material
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goods and services by labor I mean workers and when we deal with workers
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labor there is a series of points we must take into account first point has
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to do with the employment situation of labor of workers and we distinguish
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between active population or labor force on the one hand and inactive population
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on the other hand active population is made up of the company of the sorry
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combination of people who are in paid work in other words this is the employed
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population but labor force or active population also includes unemployed
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people okay people who are not employed but are looking for a job inactive
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population includes those people who are not working and they are not available
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to work. Think about pensioners or students. The second important point about labor is labor market.
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In our world, in our economy, there is a labor market. There is a market in which the supply
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for work, which is to say the workers look for work, and the demand for work, the companies
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need for work converge okay if you have any doubts about it we will work on it
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in class and finally I must mention another point related to labor which is
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labor problems the problems related to workers the main problems related to
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labor today in the context of our economy in the context of our world are
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are those related to unemployment, job insecurity,
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youth unemployment, which is especially important
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in such countries as Spain,
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gender discrimination and child labor.
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Child labor is especially a problem
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in underdeveloped and developing countries.
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I will end here, we will continue in class.
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- Autor/es:
- José Luis Gasch Tomás
- Subido por:
- Jose Luis G.
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Compartir igual
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- Fecha:
- 5 de junio de 2023 - 11:55
- Visibilidad:
- Clave
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- IES AVENIDA DE LOS TOREROS
- Duración:
- 08′
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