How Should We Best Approach the Issue of Scarcity

question 125

Multiple Choice

How should we best approach the issue of scarcity?

• A) We should only desire things that we are capable of consuming and producing.
• B) We should make changes to fiscal policy until the situation of scarcity is eliminated.
• C) We should make decisions that allow us to arrange our resources rationally.
• D) We should adopt economic policies that will lead to unlimited resources.

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