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Scarcity is the milieu in which human behaviour operates.
Is Economics All About Scarcity?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Scarcity is the set of problems that we have made, largely for others.
Computing at the Margins « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010
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Scarcity is the result, along with a host of other, rather horrifying, outcomes.
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Scarcity is omnipresent, and while I'd contend that redistributing resources to provide medical care to children is a social good, society has to fund other social goods as well.
Balkinization 2007
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Scarcity is represented by cleanness of teeth, Amos iv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Scarcity is why you cannot simply plan an economy promising unlimited hours of labor for factories as they need them, unlimited goods in the store so that demand need not be known, why you can't tax people as much as you like in order to provide the programs that you would like to offer; every economic question about trade, welfare, private versus public programs, all allocation questions and all policy that may inform whether an economy "functions" begins with the problem of scarcity.
Is Economics All About Scarcity?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The second, Stupid Perfect World, by Scott Westerfeld, is set in a futuristic world where students take a class called Scarcity, about the hard parts of history before all the technology they have now that keeps their world “perfect.”
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The second, Stupid Perfect World, by Scott Westerfeld, is set in a futuristic world where students take a class called Scarcity, about the hard parts of history before all the technology they have now that keeps their world “perfect.”
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Scarcity occurs when there is not enough of an item or service for everyone to have as much as they want at no cost.
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Scarcity occurs when there is not enough of an item or service for everyone to have as much as they want at no cost.
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