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j.rubin

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Briefly explain the difference between the concepts of scarcity and shortage.
 
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Question 2

A situation in which a market economy leads to too few or too many resources going to a particular economic activity is known as
 
  A) competition.
  B) excessive competition.
  C) destructive competition.
  D) a market failure.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Scarcity is not a shortage. Scarcity occurs when we cannot obtain all that we want at a zero price. We can eliminate a shortage but we cannot eliminate scarcity because it always exists as a result of limited resources relative to our unlimited wants.

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