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Hansen did not anticipate the war’s huge capital-consuming effect, and that of many smaller wars, plus the long Cold War, in keeping capital scarce.
The human race has proved very successful in the past at keeping capital scarce – mainly by engaging in destructive wars.
With gas increasingly scarce, Argentina defaulted on its gas-export contracts to Chile, and imposed an abusive and arbitrary tax on gas sales to its Andean neighbor.
Closing the Health-Care Data GapBOSTON – While much of the world today suffers from information overload, there are still places where information is scarce.
Data remain scarce.
Might it hold the key to a way to better preserve scarce organs needed for transplants?
With hard currencies scarce and inferior goods to sell, many of ECO’s members may have to look regionally rather than internationally.
Second, today’s algorithms are becoming very good at pattern recognition when they are provided with large data sets – finding objects in YouTube videos or detecting credit card fraud – but they are much less effective with unusual circumstances that do not fit the usual pattern, or simply when the data are scarce or a bit “noisy.”
When information is scarce and unevenly distributed, prices may well depart from the reality of fundamentals.
It can be argued that the sophisticated loan packages created by banks in recent years are, likewise, a new and unknown product, so information and experience to aid pricing has been scarce and dispersed.
But the often-heard justification for this assumption – that humanity is rapidly depleting these scarce resources – is inconsistent with real-world events, as innovation has effectively expanded oil, gas, and coal reserves to unprecedented levels in recent years.
While leverage normally becomes scarce and expensive during recessions, this time declining confidence in sovereign debt also has increased the cost of capital.
And when credit is scarce, recoveries are inevitably slow.
We need to guard against false narratives, not scarce resources.
Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.
Water-stressed regions like Ethiopia and Sudan can adapt, at least in part, through improved technologies such as “drip irrigation,” rainwater harvesting, improved water storage facilities, deep wells, and agro-forestry techniques that make best use of scarce rainfall.
They have only limited land, and if one assumes ever-increasing GDP and rising income inequality, there will always be more and more wealthy people to bid up prices in these scarce areas.
A good example would be research into how best to share scarce freshwater among Middle Eastern countries.
Though international funding will be available, costs will fall largely to countries, with governments forced to divert scarce resources from development projects to adaptation initiatives.
Most corporations, after all, are merely convenient mechanisms for ensuring that scarce global capital is used at maximum efficiency, to the benefit of all.
Ownership in large American firms is diffuse, with block-holding shareholders scarce, even today.
The economy is stagnant, unemployment is high, and resources are scarce.
The usual explanation of today’s scarcity and high prices focuses on explosive growth in emerging countries, China and India in particular, whose demand for scarce resources is “insatiable.”
Periods of globalization have been eras of considerable economic advance; but they have also increased inequality within particular countries, as markets rewarded scarce factors of production, thus fueling powerful political backlashes that endangered the continuation of trade and financial integration.
But the US government’s failings are matched in many parts of the world, and certainly in the poorest countries, where scientific expertise is scarce, and where many governments do not have scientific advisory councils to turn to for guidance.
But these presumed rights do not stem naturally from property rights and claims to scarce resources – the coins of the neoliberal realm.
That vision was built on a simple and brilliant idea: to borrow against the secure capital of creditor members (at the time, primarily the US) and lend to members where investment capital was scarce and returns would be high.
This time, by contrast, the new development bank would take the lead in channeling scarce homegrown resources into selected productive investment.
So it is important to get an overview of how Latin America’s scarce financial resources would be used most effectively.
Expansions usually start collapsing when labor gets too scarce and too expensive.
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