Sentences with 'scarcity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word scarcity and other words derived from it.
• « This would be unthinkable in a pre-modern economy, where the essential problem facing a society was the scarcity of goods. However, thanks to the Industrial Revolution, products need consumers more than they need products. »
• « Instead of a handful of super-rich expropriators, all could share in material comfort and freedom from scarcity, something that had never been possible before. That vision of revolution was a powerful one for the young Marx, who wrote that, given the inherent tendencies of capitalism, revolution was inevitable. »
• « The competition New England farmers faced from farmers settling in the West, and the increasing scarcity of land in densely populated New England, had important implications for farmers' sons. »