History is littered with widely believed long-term economic forecasts that prove to be highly mistaken. Remember when it was generally believed that first Russia and then Japan would eat our economic ...

There's a debate about the meaning of economic scarcity going on all over the Web, most recently set off by Chris Anderson's "Economy of Abundance" talk at Pop!Tech, that David Hornik and Ross ...

Scarcity has been a bedrock feature of economic reality and public policy since at least Adam Smith and possibly the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Scarcity is the limited availability of ...

You can’t always get what you want. - The Rolling Stones As we usually think of it, scarcity is the economic problem of having unlimited human wants and needs in a world of limited resources. We have ...

How well equipped are we as a civilization to overcome resource scarcity in the future? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...

Climate change will increasingly stress water supply and economic and environmental systems, creating a mounting need for ...

Bitcoin is obviously scarce. And it seems to be becoming scarcer over time. But, perhaps due to the current bull run, doubts about both of these propositions are seemingly on the rise among bitcoin ...

Alongside her husband and two others, Esther Duflo won a Nobel Prize for Economics last year for her experimental approach to alleviating poverty in the developing world. She is the first female ...

Among Bitcoin’s principal tenets is the idea that its baked-in scarcity makes it valuable. Bitcoin’s algorithmically determined rate of increase certainly makes it scarce when demand for the bitcoin ...