Perhaps, once in awhile, scarcity will breed rational thinking, too.
That kind of fact-finding—often amid a scarcity of facts—would be for a jury to determine.
One of the most painful and confusing paradoxes of life today concerns our sensation of scarcity amid plenty.
Meerson traces this scarcity of one-man performers back to a culture of collectivism that predates even the Communist revolution.
Inside of prison, even our privileged American prison, scarcity is just as much of an issue as it was in the Gulag.
The stairs also were pulled down and burned, though there was no scarcity of firing.
There was both a scarcity of cash and a lack of faith in the enterprise.
The second reason is, That in this colony a scarcity is never to be apprehended.
There was no scarcity of muskets and ammunition; all they had to do was stoop and pick them up.
No scarcity of fun in Ireland—which beats the world for sparkling incident.
c.1300, from Old North French escarcete (Old French escharsete), from eschars (see scarce).
The basic problem on which classical economic theory is built: simply, that human wants will always exceed the resources available to fulfill those wants. This tenet was challenged by the rise of what John Kenneth Galbraith described as the affluent society.
