I have a point: but all that is "life-saving medicine" is not the scarce goods.
笔者有一个观点：但凡是“救命药”都不该是紧缺品。
problem-solving in a social context, such as how to distribute scarce goods or defend the clan;
其三是在社会大背景下解决问题的过程，比如如何在物资紧缺是分发产品和如何保卫自己的家族；
Another was the importance of personal connections in obtaining scarce goods and services.
另一后遗症则是私人关系在获取短缺物资及服务时变得特别重要。
When those scarce goods are vital for the smooth running of the economy (as oil is), it is natural for countries to get a bit desperate.
当那些短缺的商品对于经济正常运行至关重要时（比如原油），国家自然就会变得有点疯狂。
The end result really is a much bigger market with muchgreater benefit by expanding the market by using infinite goods to makethe scarce goods more valuable.
利用不存在缺乏的资源来增加存在缺乏部份的价值，最终也会带来更大的市场和更大的利益。
AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services.
在哥伦比亚大学读书时，我的授业良师，经济学教授C·洛厄尔·哈里斯先生（他刚过完96岁生日）跟我们讲过，经济学是一门研究短缺商品和服务分配问题的学问。
To cut into a ham in mid-winter, when food supplies dwindled and green goods were scarce, was to witness the beginning of the end-the end being, of course, starvation.
在隆冬时节，食品供应趋紧、蔬菜减少的时候，开始切开一只火腿即说明是结束的开始- - -什么结束，那当然是，结束挨饿。
Because resources are scarce, devoting more resources to producing capital requires devoting fewer resources to producing goods and services for current consumption.
由于资源是稀缺的，把更多的资源用于生产资本就要求把较少资源用于生产现期消费的物品和服务。
By moving goods from places where they are plentiful to places where they are scarce, transport adds to their value.
把货物从他们比较丰富的地区运到这种货物稀少的地区，交通增加了他们的价值。
State-run radio said Chenzhou was like a "deserted island, " with its shops closed and goods scarce.
中央人民广播电台报道称：郴州就像一座孤岛，商店关门，商品短缺。
And there was only grudging acquiescence in its complicated system of rationing scarce consumer goods: coffee, sugar, meat, butter, canned goods, shoes, tires, gasoline, and fuel oil.
对咖啡、食糖、肉类、黄油、罐头、鞋类、轮胎、汽油、燃料等稀缺消费品实行配给的复杂制度，人们也只是勉强默认。
That's because all those relatively scarce commodities have been converted into a glut of consumer goods. Manufacturers can't raise their prices because of global competition.
由于全球竞争，制造商无法提高产品价格，于是它们通过购买资本设备来提高生产率，从而抵消了大部分上涨的原材料成本，维持着较高的利润率。
That's because all those relatively scarce commodities have been converted into a glut of consumer goods. Manufacturers can't raise their prices because of global competition.
由于全球竞争，制造商无法提高产品价格，于是它们通过购买资本设备来提高生产率，从而抵消了大部分上涨的原材料成本，维持着较高的利润率。
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