There's a debate about the meaning of economic scarcity going on all over the Web, most recently set off by Chris Anderson's "Economy of Abundance" talk at Pop!Tech, that David Hornik and Ross ...

Historically, business success has been defined by abundance. But as signs of capitalistic fatigue emerge, the next economic ...

U.S. farmland is emerging as a distinctive store of value—driven by one key feature: its fundamental scarcity.

When we told an economist colleague that we were studying scarcity, he remarked, “There is already a science of scarcity. You might have heard of it. It’s called economics.” He was right, of ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo discusses the role of women in her field. Alongside her husband and two others, Esther Duflo won a Nobel Prize for Economics last year for her ...

Scary economic news is everywhere, but adopting a scarcity mindset can get in the way of making sound money decisions.

The impact of water scarcity is not confined to a local or regional scale. It is a global crisis with far-reaching consequences, from economic disruptions to geopolitical tensions and mass migrations.

There are fewer women than men among both professors and students in the economics department at Tufts, according to Professor Dan Richards, chair of the Department of Economics. Richardstold the ...