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- adjective Not
scarce .
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Examples
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In a world where information is nonscarce, the problem isn't finding generic information -- it's finding useful information.
Boing Boing: January 5, 2003 - January 11, 2003 Archives 2003
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Faulhaber: If you could wave a wand and make it nonscarce, then markets lose their power.
Boing Boing: February 23, 2003 - March 1, 2003 Archives 2003
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My unprovable a priori position is that classical and neoclassical economics, because they are founded upon the assumption that all resources are economically scarce, often produce answers of limited value when the resources are nonscarce either within a given market or in general.
Scrivener's Error 2003
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We have seen that it is nonscarce and free, and thus easy to share and consume.
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Unlike the goods people exchange money for, information is nonscarce.
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But ideas and information are not physical goods, and therefore they are not only nonscarce in practice but also nonscarce in principle.
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Intellectual-property legislation attempts to turn nonscarce, unownable information into a scarce, ownable thing.
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In fact, as Rothbard points out, nonscarce goods cannot even be economized - that is, they cannot be made the object of human action.
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We should observe that air, since it is a physical good, is scarce in principle but may be considered nonscarce insofar as its supply and ubiquity exceeds all of the potential uses to which acting persons can put it.
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The information is nonscarce, free, and easy to share
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