TY - JOUR AU - Javier Iguíñiz Echeverría PY - 2010/03/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Tres conceptos de escasez JF - Economia JA - ECONOMIA VL - 33 IS - 65 SE - Articles DO - 10.18800/economia.201001.002 UR - https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/economia/article/view/582 AB - We suggest the need to distinguish between three types of scarcity: absolute, relative and comparative. In this way we relate scarcity to the three main components of the economy: production, exchange and distribution. During the XX century, scarcity has been, by far, mainly used to deal with the second. ER -