The Perpetual State of Insufficiency of Resources to Satisfy People's

question 223

Multiple Choice

The perpetual state of insufficiency of resources to satisfy people's unlimited wants is:

• A) apparent only in poor countries.
• B) completely unrealistic.
• C) present in modern economies, but not in the past.
• D) the definition of scarcity.

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