Time, to borrow a theme from our FORBES colleague George Gilder, is the new scarcity.
Read in this spirit, large chunks of the Old Testament the territorial feuds, the constant threat of exile or extinction, the sexual jealousy and sibling rivalry begin to resemble the handbook for a grim new scarcity economy of land and love.
Nobody except the Paulsens had suspected him of harboring such reserves of discontent, but Walter was no less enthusiastic about nature than he was about culture, and the only outward change in his life was his new scarcity at home on weekends.
But in their new book, Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity, Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne document the new rise of effectively competing private currencies.
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Other oil companies did a better job of coping with the scarcity of new oilfields.
However, Duncan Forbes, chief executive of Bron Afon Community Housing in Torfaen, said the new scheme "makes scarcity worse".
According to Steve Sakwa of Merrill Lynch, in the short term there will be severe scarcity in New York, which is now destined to remain one of the tightest office-space markets in the country.
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Analysts and money managers blame the relative scarcity of new bonds on a lack of clarity regarding proposed rules changes intended to shift the financial burden of future bank rescues from taxpayers to bondholders.
Such water scarcity is nothing new for this part of China, and neither is government attention to the issue.
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Liquidity will take on a new meaning in company finances as water scarcity gains more attention from managers and investors.
Fortunately, a number of companies are turning to new disruptive technologies to help alleviate water's scarcity.
In the Information Age, we have moved from an economy of scarcity to one of abundance, creating new issues that we have to learn how to manage.
It is desperately searching for new pools of crude while trying to make up for their scarcity by shifting its focus toward natural gas.
This is why one of the most vital projects of this new century, defined by climate change and growing energy and resource scarcity, is to figure out a way to build these variables back into our economic system.
Using new vegetable oil -- not the used stuff from restaurants -- raises similar scarcity questions.
Even if energy scarcity were the root of California's problem, opening Alaska to new production would not solve it: oil found there will take a decade to get to market.
Scarcity of coal has reduced power generation at several Indian power plants and prevented many new power plants from starting operations.
Another factor contributing to the scarcity of land for Jewish building is the government's refusal to permit the building of new neighborhoods in areas like E-1 near Mount Scopus.
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