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LABOR: One of the four basic categories of resources, or factors of production (the other three are capital, land, and entrepreneurship). Labor is the services and efforts of humans that are used for production. While labor is commonly thought of as those who work in factories, it includes all human efforts (except entrepreneurship), such as those provided by clerical workers, technicians, professionals, managers, and even company presidents.

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  • The use of limited resources (factors of production) to produce goods and services that satisfy wants and needs.
  • The four basic types of resources: labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship.
  • Labor as the human effort used to produce goods.
  • Capital as the manufactured resource used in production.
  • Land as the natural resources that provide the materials used in goods.
  • Entrepreneurship as the factor that combines other resources in the production process.
  • Differences between limited, scarce, and free resources.
  • The fuzzy areas of overlap between the different types of resources.

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INFERIOR GOOD

A good for which a change in income causes an opposite change in demand. That is, an increase in income causes a decrease in demand and a decrease in income causes an increase in demand. The income elasticity of demand for an inferior good is negative. An inferior good is one of two alternatives falling within the buyers' income demand determinant. The other is a normal good.

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