Sentence examples for condition of scarcity from inspiring English sources

"Humanity's ancient condition of scarcity was going to end, imminently," Mr. Spufford writes.

For the past 25 years economics has been wrestling with this problem: all mainstream economics proceeds from a condition of scarcity, yet the most dynamic force in our modern world is abundant and, as hippy genius Stewart Brand once put it, "wants to be free".

The authors designed complicated games to simulate conditions of scarcity.

You will not eat it in the conditions of scarcity of our Paleolithic ancestors.

Our predilection for gorging on meat was good for our ancestors, in conditions of scarcity, but not for us.

Moreover, the colonel is accustomed to operating under conditions of scarcity; his regime survived UN sanctions in the 1990s.

Their most arresting claim is that the same effects kick in – albeit not always with such grave implications – in any conditions of scarcity, not just lack of money.

Terrence Deacon, for instance, a professor of biological anthropology and linguistics at Berkeley, has argued that animals' appearance alters and their behavior changes — birds brighten and their songs grow elaborate — not in conditions of scarcity, where bird fights bird for every seed, but in landscapes of plenitude.

He writes that "conditions of scarcity work to the advantage of conservatives, undermining the willingness of voters to sacrifice — pay higher taxes — for the less fortunate," and adds that the Republican Party has demonstrated "a willingness to go for the kill" and "a facility in deploying wedge issues".

Some have suggested that property relations only make sense under conditions of scarcity (Hume [1739] 1888, pp. 484 98).

She argues that evolutionary explanations tend to be based on notions of individual competition under conditions of scarcity, which are historically and culturally specific and need not hold.