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Scarcity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scarcity (also called paucity ) is the problem of infinite human needs and wants, in a world of finite resources. Society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill those wants and needs. Alt...
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Previous research on the allocation of scarce resources suggests that people who are assigned to higher positions (e.g., leaders) are more likely to make self-benefiting allocations than people who are assigned to lower positions (e.g., followers).
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Rosner F; Sordillo PP; Sechzer PH; Risemberg HM; Ona FV; Numann PJ; Loeb L; Farnsworth PB; Bennett AJ; Wolpaw JR; Department of Medicine, Queens Hospital Center Affiliation of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Jamaica, NY 11432 ... Resource Allocation...
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Interventions, indicated by low levels of cost per Qaly should be selected first in order to receive a rational allocation of scarce resources. Given a fixed budget this maximizes the total number of Qaly's. Surprisingly, as we will show, this approach not always results in optimal allocation.
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The results suggest that certain demographic factors may bias the decision making of individuals or committees involved in the allocation of scarce medical resources.
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This is shown to require treating it as a unique scarce resource, used for deciding on its own uses. This uniqueness disturbs axiomatic economics by ... Pelikan, Pavel (2007): Allocation of scarce resources when rationality is one of them: some consequences of cognitive inequalities for theory and policy. Unpublished.
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August 10, 2001 in response to Administrative Ethics and the Allocation of Scarce Resources with reply by author; ... P.J. Maddox's article, Administrative Ethics and The Allocation of Scarce Resources, was indeed a revelation for me. I am a staff nurse in a Veterans Administration Hospital in Texas.
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