“Factors of Production” is a science-fiction novel by Dmitry Raspopov, the second book of the “Money Doesn’t Stink” cycle, genres: military science fiction, accidentals (isekai), and social science fiction. One of the financial geniuses of the Arasaka corporation ends up in an alternative world of Japan in the 1980s, where technological progress has stalled because talented graduates won’t let go of monopoly clan privileges over the services provided to people. Can he repeat the greatness of his Corporation in the new world and stand against the gifted—without having a gift of his own? Can he create his own clan and hold onto the top when everyone around is stronger than him? Money versus magic in the new author’s cycle “Money Doesn’t Stink.”