scarcity

fundamental problem of economics where there are limited resources to fulfill society's unlimited wants
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scarcity

Summary

scarcity is an economic concept[1]. scarcity draws 185 Wikipedia views per month (economic_concept category, ranking #51 of 213).[2]

Key Facts

  • scarcity's instance of is recorded as economic concept[3].
  • scarcity's GND ID is recorded as 4164266-1[4].
  • scarcity's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85118018[5].
  • scarcity's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12017798t[6].
  • scarcity's subclass of is recorded as economic problem[7].
  • scarcity's subclass of is recorded as deficiency[8].
  • scarcity's subclass of is recorded as operational risk[9].
  • scarcity's Commons category is recorded as Scarcity[10].
  • scarcity's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 52503[11].
  • scarcity's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/079gm[12].
  • scarcity's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Scarcity[13].
  • scarcity's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 338.47[14].
  • scarcity's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 338.5201[15].
  • scarcity's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 700270[16].
  • scarcity's partially coincident with is recorded as rarity[17].
  • scarcity's partially coincident with is recorded as excess demand[18].
  • scarcity's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/scarcity[19].
  • scarcity's BBC Things ID is recorded as 8e3a03c1-2b87-43da-88fe-a4fd4d7cdc5f[20].
  • scarcity's FAST ID is recorded as 1106535[21].
  • scarcity's YSO ID is recorded as 25969[22].
  • scarcity's Quora topic ID is recorded as Scarcity-1[23].
  • scarcity's Quora topic ID is recorded as Scarcity-economics[24].
  • scarcity's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as economie/schaarste[25].
  • scarcity's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as scarcity[26].
  • scarcity's EuroVoc ID is recorded as 2317[27].

Why It Matters

scarcity draws 185 Wikipedia views per month (economic_concept category, ranking #51 of 213).[2] scarcity has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] scarcity is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_scarcity_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{scarcity}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/scarcity}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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