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 of resources’ implies that there are unlimited wants to be fulfilled by limited resources. The basic concern of an economy is to allocate the scarce resources to the best possible use in the face of unlimited wants. Thus, the problem of scarcity forces an economy to make a choice among various alternatives.

Detailed explanation-3: -Resources are scarce because we live in a world in which humans’ wants are infinite but the land, labor, and capital required to satisfy those wants are limited. This conflict between society’s unlimited wants and our limited resources means choices must be made when deciding how to allocate scarce resources.

Detailed explanation-4: -Scarcity means individuals, businesses and governments have to deal with the problem of unlimited wants, but limited resources. Every economic system, from capitalism to socialism, has to deal with the problem of scarcity whereby the demand is greater than the supply.

Detailed explanation-5: -Limited Means-these are our ability to get / obtain the goods and services we would like to have (our unlimited wants). The main ones are: Time-the time we have to fulfill our needs and wants. Income-the money we have available to fulfill our needs and wants.