By the 1920s a state-subsidized system of grain elevators, silos, and storage at railheads helped to ease the cycle of glut and scarcity. |
While buyers are not thrilled by rising prices, rising prices are one of the ameliorative responses to changes in scarcity conditions. |
Knowing everything the price system communicates about relative scarcity, would Jesus drive a gas-sipping econobox? |
What we know in the secret recesses of our hearts is that the story of scarcity is a tale of death. |
It merely refuses to help the owner get rich from artificially enforced scarcity. |
This was especially so in the prairies and plains, where a scarcity of trees made wooden fencing impractical. |