The price system and private enterprise, conclude the "production-for-use" philosophers, are merely a form of "scarcity economics.

这些“生产致用”的哲学家下结论说：价格体系和私人企业只不过是“匮乏经济学”的一种形式。

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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.

经济学的第一堂课就讲不足：没有任何东西可以满足所有需要它们的人。

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The central concern of economics is expressed in the concept of scarcity.

经济学关心的中心问题是以稀缺的概念表示出来的。

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If scarcity vanishes then conventional economics does too.

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That scarcity problem is largely what economics is about.

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Observing the knowledge economy of Silicon Valley, he said economics was not just about scarcity but abundance.

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