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  2. Scarcity - Wikipedia

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    [1] Scarcity is the limited availability of a commodity, which may be in demand in the market or by the commons. Scarcity also includes an individual's lack of resources to buy commodities. [2] The opposite of scarcity is abundance. Scarcity plays a key role in economic theory, and it is essential for a "proper definition of economics itself". [3]

  3. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much - Wikipedia

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    Scarcity affects the functioning of the brain at both a conscious and subconscious level, and has a large impact on the way one behaves. The authors suggest that scarcity has a tendency to push us into a state of tunneling: a focus primarily on the scarcity of a resource, and a resulting neglect of everything else “outside” the tunnel. When ...

  4. Scarcity (social psychology) - Wikipedia

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    There are two social psychology principles that work with scarcity that increase its powerful force. One is social proof. This is a contributing factor to the effectiveness of scarcity because if a product is sold out, or inventory is extremely low, humans interpret that to mean the product must be good since everyone else appears to be buying it.

  5. Economic problem - Wikipedia

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    In other words, what to produce and how much to produce. More production of a good implies more resources required for the production of that good, and resources are scarce. These two facts together mean that, if a society decides to increase the production of some good, it has to withdraw some resources from the production of other goods.

  6. Scarcity value - Wikipedia

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    Scarcity value is an economic factor describing the increase in an item's relative price by a low supply.Whereas the prices of newly manufactured products depends mostly on the cost of production (the cost of inputs used to produce them, which in turn reflects the scarcity of the inputs), the prices of many goods—such as antiques, rare stamps, and those raw materials in high demand ...

  7. Trekonomics - Wikipedia

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    In the future of post-scarcity, we will not have to worry about money. We may not need to work to earn resources, which will be abundant, so we can escape from the fear of scarcity. Instead of that, we will work to get reputation and respect. Star Trek is the most famous example of the post

  8. Hoarding (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Hoarding in economics refers to the concept of purchasing and storing a large amount of a particular product, creating scarcity of that product, and ultimately driving the price of that product up. Commonly hoarded products include assets such as money, gold and public securities , [ 1 ] as well as vital goods such as fuel and medicine. [ 2 ]

  9. Post-scarcity - Wikipedia

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    Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely. [1] [2] Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services.