Theorizing Scarcity

Costas Panayotakis
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Costas Panayotakis: New York City College of Technology – City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2013, vol. 45, issue 2, 183-200

Abstract: This article critically examines the neoclassical approach to scarcity as well as critiques of neoclassical economics that focus either on the formation of people’s wants (the demand side of scarcity) or on the production and distribution of the goods needed to satisfy these wants (the supply side). I argue that critiques of the neoclassical approach are right to emphasize the relationship between the determinants of scarcity and the economic system as a whole but are less convincing when they project the possibility of overcoming neoclassical scarcity altogether.JEL Codes: A10, P10, Z13

Keywords: scarcity and abundance; neoclassical economics; capitalism; hunting and gathering societies; conspicuous consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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