{"id":25165,"date":"2023-07-23T21:40:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T21:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/can-all-economic-problems-be-understood-as-dealing-with-scarcity-i-e-with-how-to-use-existing-resources-to-satisfy-alternative-needs-discuss-by-drawing-on-the-fundamental-paradigms-in-economics\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T21:40:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T21:40:03","slug":"can-all-economic-problems-be-understood-as-dealing-with-scarcity-i-e-with-how-to-use-existing-resources-to-satisfy-alternative-needs-discuss-by-drawing-on-the-fundamental-paradigms-in-economics","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/can-all-economic-problems-be-understood-as-dealing-with-scarcity-i-e-with-how-to-use-existing-resources-to-satisfy-alternative-needs-discuss-by-drawing-on-the-fundamental-paradigms-in-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Can all economic problems be understood as dealing with scarcity, i.e. with how to use existing resources to satisfy alternative needs? Discuss by drawing on the fundamental paradigms in economics."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The 2 competing paradigms are exchange vs production&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>use these paradigms and reference them&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><font size=\"3\">The production paradigm &#8211;&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; cursor: auto;\"><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;Classical<br \/>\nPolitical Economy<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0.75in; margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 90%; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\u2022<\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Adam<br \/>\nSmith and David Ricardo&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">exchange paradigm &#8211;&nbsp;<span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; cursor: auto;\">L<\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; cursor: auto;\">\u00e9on<\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; cursor: auto;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; cursor: auto;\">Walras\u2019s<\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; cursor: auto;\"> theory of <\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; cursor: auto;\">general equilibrium<\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div><font size=\"3\"><br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><font size=\"3\"><b><u>must not be plagiarised&nbsp;<\/u><\/b><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 competing paradigms are exchange vs production&nbsp; use these paradigms and reference them&nbsp; The production paradigm &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;Classical Political Economy \u2022Adam Smith and David Ricardo&nbsp; exchange paradigm &#8211;&nbsp;L\u00e9on Walras\u2019s theory of general equilibrium must not be plagiarised&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[710],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=25165"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=25165"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=25165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}