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Value and Scarcity

Value and Scarcity

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Colin Wright
Jan 27, 2022
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In economics, scarcity means the demand for a good or service outweighs the availability of said good or service.

People want more than is available, and consequently we have to figure out who gets what, when.

One common way of managing scarce goods and services is by making them expensive: this is usually shorthanded as “supply and demand.”

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