ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -One of the defining features of economics is scarcity, which deals with how people satisfy unlimited wants and needs with limited resources. Scarcity affects the monetary value people place on goods and services and how governments and private firms decide to distribute resources.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scarcity works in the free market by supply and demand, which can fluctuate the price of a good or service over time, when there’s more or less of it available. For example, oil. This limited resource sees its price consistently change. When oil reserves get used, the supply falls.

Detailed explanation-3: -If we only had more resources we could produce more goods and services and satisfy more of our wants. This will reduce scarcity and give us more satisfaction (more good and services). All societies therefore try to achieve economic growth. A second way for a society to handle scarcity is to reduce its wants.

Detailed explanation-4: -The principle of scarcity states that there are limited goods and services for unlimited wants. Thus, people need to make choices in order to satisfy the wants that are most important to them.