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  2. Hoarding (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Hoarding resources can prevent or slow products or commodities from traveling through the economy. [4] Subsequently, this may cause the product or commodity to become scarce, causing the value of the resource to rise. A common intention of economic hoarding is to generate a profit by selling the product once the price has increased.

  3. Economic problem - Wikipedia

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    In view of the scarce resources, the question of whether all available resources are fully utilized is an important one. A community should achieve maximum satisfaction by using the scarce resources in the best possible manner—not wasting resources or using them inefficiently. There are two types of employment of resources:

  4. Resource rent - Wikipedia

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    Scarcity rent is one of two costs the extraction of a finite resource imposes on society. The other is marginal extraction cost--the opportunity cost of resources employed in the extraction activity. Scarcity rent is the cost of "using up" a finite resource because benefits of the extracted resource are unavailable to future generations.

  5. Scarcity - Wikipedia

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    People queue up for soup and bread at relief tents in the aftermath of the Great Seattle Fire of June 6, 1889. In economics, scarcity "refers to the basic fact of life that there exists only a finite amount of human and nonhuman resources which the best technical knowledge is capable of using to produce only limited maximum amounts of each economic good."

  6. Economic efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Because productive resources are scarce, the resources must be allocated to various industries in just the right amounts, otherwise too much or too little output gets produced. [2] When drawing diagrams for businesses , allocative efficiency is satisfied if output is produced at the point where marginal cost is equal to average revenue.

  7. Rent-seeking - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the term refers to gaining control of land or other natural resources. [7] Georgist economic theory describes rent-seeking in terms of land rent, where the value of land largely comes from the natural resources native to the land, as well as collectively paid for services, for example: State schools, law enforcement, fire ...

  8. Price system - Wikipedia

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    In economics, a price system is a system through which the valuations of any forms of property (tangible or intangible) are determined. All societies use price systems in the allocation and exchange of resources as a consequence of scarcity . [ 1 ]

  9. National Curriculum and Textbook Board - Wikipedia

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    All public schools and many private schools in Bangladesh follow the curriculum of NCTB. Starting in 2010, every year free books are distributed to students between Grade-1 to Grade-10 to eliminate illiteracy. [6] These books comprise most of the curricula of the majority of Bangladeshi schools. There are two versions of the curriculum.