Scarcity, Opportunity Cost and Competition impact our decision-making moment to moment. This makes economics the basis of life as we know it, after God. Nothing that people value is free, someone pays the cost. To gain that thing of value, scarce resources are given up and cannot be given up again for a different thing of value. And we all are competing to capture those scarce resources.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Scarcity, does anyone really understand it?!?
OK, we all know that there is only so much stuff (goods & services) to meet everyone's unlimited wants at a price of zero. Only with God (see Matthew 14:19 - 21) does scarcity not apply.
Sometimes one wonders if scarcity is another result (besides country music) of the fall of man (Scott Huckaby, Freedom Baptist High School Bible Teacher).
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Share your unique economics experiences. What did you have to give up to gain that which at the moment seemed so necessary to you? Imperfect information spanked you and now diminishing marginal utility smacks you upside the head, eh?