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1.1 Scarcity

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Scarcity

In AP Macroeconomics, one of the fundamental concepts you will encounter is scarcity. Scarcity is a core economic problem arising from the fact that resources are limited while human wants and needs are virtually limitless. This discrepancy between limited resources and unlimited desires drives the study of economics, which fundamentally revolves around how societies allocate their finite resources to satisfy as many wants as possible.

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