Factors are critical economic resources and agents involved in the production and distribution of goods and services, encompassing capital, human resources, property resources, entrepreneurial ability, and intermediaries.
Factors of production refer to the resources required to produce economic goods, including land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial ability. Each factor has an associated cost: rent for land, wages for labor, interest for capital, and profit for the entrepreneur.
The Law of Diminishing Returns, also known as the principle of diminishing marginal productivity, is an economic rule stating that if one factor of production is increased while other factors are fixed, a point will be reached at which additions of the factor will yield progressively smaller increases in output.
The Marginal Product Theory of Distribution explains how income is distributed among the factors of production based on the marginal product of each factor. This theory asserts that each factor, such as labor and capital, is compensated according to its contribution to the market value of the product.
