The expansion of the division of labour and specialisation within an economy is most fundamentally dependent upon the existence of:
a system of complete vertical integration within manufacturing firms.
a widely accepted medium of exchange to facilitate trade and bypass the double coincidence of wants.
continuous state direction to allocate specialized roles to workers.
an equal distribution of capital assets across all productive sectors.
156 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Economics 1.4 Production, costs and revenue, covering 1.4.1 Production and productivity, 1.4.2 Specialisation, division of labour and exchange, 1.4.3 The law of diminishing returns and returns to scale (A-level only), 1.4.4 Costs of production, 1.4.5 Economies and diseconomies of scale, 1.4.6 Marginal, average and total revenue, 1.4.7 Profit, and 1.4.8 Technological change (A-level only). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.