- •К.М.Байша
- •Англійська мова
- •Для студентів економічних спеціальностей внз
- •Херсон-2013
- •Байша к.М. Англійська мова для студентів економічних спеціальностей внз: навчально-методичний посібник. – Херсон, 2013. – 110с.
- •Context my family
- •Hobbies
- •The bologna declaration of june 1999
- •International student’s day
- •London. Places of interest
- •English traditions
- •English curiosities
- •The united kingdom
- •London fogs
- •The usa
- •Political system of the usa
- •The school system
- •The us higher education
- •Washington, d. C.
- •American festivals
- •Public economic
- •Unit 1. The economic problem
- •The Individual and Society
- •Scarcity and Choice
- •Three Basic Problems
- •Unit 2. Economic system
- •Market economies
- •Command Economies
- •Mixed Economies
- •Unit 3. The factors of production
- •Capital
- •The Entrepreneur
- •Unit 4. The division of labour
- •The Division of Labour
- •The Disadvantages of the Division of Labour
- •Unit 5. Types of business organisation
- •The Partnership
- •The Joint Stock Company
- •Unit 6. Prices and markets
- •Price and Value
- •Unit 7. Money
- •Regulation and token money
- •Unit 8. Inflation
- •Types of Inflation
- •The Effects of Inflation
- •Unit 9. Economic policy
- •Economic Policy
- •Policies with Floating Exchange Rates
- •Unit 10. Economic growth
- •Economic Growth
- •Economic Policy and Growth
- •For professional reading skills the international trade
- •The new marketplace
- •Personal banking
- •The history of banking
- •Functions, properties and kinds of money
- •Branding
- •Factors of productions
- •What is economics
- •An inexact science
- •Adam smith and his invisible hand of capitalism
- •Karl marx: it's exploitation!
- •Keynes: the government should help out the economy
- •Market economies
Capital
Capital is a man-made resource. Any product of labour and land which is reserved for use in the further production is capital.
Capital was created when people began to make simple tools and implements to assist them in the production of food, the hunting of animals, and in the transportation of their possessions.
It might be helpful at this stage to deal with the confusion which commonly arises over the meanings of three important terms: capital, money, and wealth.
Capital, as already indicated, means any produced means of production.
Wealth is quite simply the stock of all those goods which have a money value. Capital, therefore, is an important part of the community's wealth.
Money is a claim to wealth. From the standpoint of the community as a whole, money is not wealth, since we can not count both the value of real assets and the value of the money claims to those assets. From the point of view of the individual citizen, however, money represents a part of his personal wealth since he sees it as a claim on assets held by other people. To the individual business person, therefore, any money he possesses he regards as capital since it gives him a claim on resources now possessed by others. We must be quite clear, however, that money is not part of the national wealth.
Capital is usually divided into two types: that which is used up in the course of production and that which is not.
Working capital consists of the stocks of raw materials, partly finished goods held by producers. These stocks are just as important to efficient production as are the machines and buildings. Stocks are held so that production can proceed smoothly when deliveries are interrupted and so that unexpected additional orders for finished goods can be met without changing production schedules. This kind of capital is sometimes called circulating capital because it keeps moving and changing. Materials are changed into finished goods which are then exchanged for money and this in turn is used to buy more materials.
Fixed capital consists of the equipment used in production — buildings, machinery, railways and so on. This type of capital does not change its form in the course of production and move from one stage to the next — it is 'fixed'.
15. Read text C and explain understand the entrepreneurship as one of the factor of production.
Text С
The Entrepreneur
As mentioned earlier, economists sometimes identify a forth factor of production — enterprise. It is held that, left to themselves, land, labour, and capital will not produce anything. There must be some person or persons, who will organize these three factors so that production takes place. Someone must take the decisions (a) what to produce (i.e. the type of good or service and the quantity), (b) how to produce (i.e. the methods of production); (c) where to produce (i.e. the location of the enterprise).
Whoever takes the decisions, and the consequent risks, is known as the entrepreneur. There is no really suitable English word to describe such a person, perhaps 'enterpriser' is the nearest we can get. The entrepreneur is the person who undertakes production with a view to profit. In a capitalist society, production would not take place unless someone was prepared to buy and organize economic resources for production on the basis of expected profit.
Organization, management and risk-bearing — these are the entrepreneurial functions. In the one-person business, they are clearly all carried out by the sole proprietor. In the large company, the functions of the entrepreneur are shared, risk bearing is the role of the shareholders; management is the function of the directors.