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 ...

When we told an economist colleague that we were studying scarcity, he remarked, “There is already a science of scarcity. You might have heard of it. It’s called economics.” He was right, of course.

This month’s column has been particularly difficult to write. Normally, I’m not very emotionally involved in the topic other than it touches on things that I care about. I can normally keep my mental ...

In a general sense, today’s online spaces have created environments where content is easily accessible, endlessly copiable, and of uncertain worth. The concept of scarcity, which serves as a definer ...

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