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'''Artificial scarcity''' describes the [[scarcity]] of items even though the technology and [[Economic production|production]] capacity exists to create an abundance. The term is aptly applied to non-rival resources, i.e. those that do not diminish due to one person's use, although there are other resources which could be categorized as artificially scarce. The most common causes are [[monopoly]] pricing structures, such as those enabled by [[intellectual property]] rights or by high [[fixed costs]] in a particular marketplace. The inefficiency associated with artificial scarcity is formally known as a [[deadweight loss]]. | '''Artificial scarcity''' describes the [[scarcity]] of items even though the technology and [[Economic production|production]] capacity exists to create an abundance. The term is aptly applied to non-rival resources, i.e. those that do not diminish due to one person's use, although there are other resources which could be categorized as artificially scarce. The most common causes are [[monopoly]] pricing structures, such as those enabled by [[intellectual property]] rights or by high [[fixed costs]] in a particular marketplace. The inefficiency associated with artificial scarcity is formally known as a [[deadweight loss]]. | ||
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| + | With computer software, no significant trade-off occurs. To produce more of a certain piece of digital information, since virtually no resources are used to copy the information there is no trade-off with the production of other things, like shoes and boots. | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
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- ↑ Phi Kappa Phi (1952). Phi Kappa Phi journal. Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.