Of Time, Body, and Scarcity
Policy Options and Theoretic Considerations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6298917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Kincaid (0000-0003-3824-3254, North Texas State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 401-416 |
| Publication date | 1983-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/019251218300400311 |
| OpenAlex | W1975727982 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Scarcity is any natural or human insufficiency of resources that are objectively or subjec tively necessary to realize any given end valued by human beings. To the extent that human life and its ends are construed as materialistic, scarcity is intrinsic to human existence and is a fundamental problem for political science. Scarcity has been a salient issue for modern political theory because of modernity's heightened consciousness of mortality, which has made time and life themselves scarce. Modernity has sought compen sations through material abundance for the pain of life's scarcity and the conflicts engendered by that scarcity, though abundance itself has not solved the political problem. Basically, there are two policy options regarding material scarcity: increasing resource supplies and decreasing resource demands. Increasing supplies may be effective in the short run; but decreasing demand may be required in the long run, preferably by revaluing the ends of human life rather than by reducing freedom or opportunities for life itself
Consciousness · Economics · Epistemology · Market economy · Materialism · Modernity · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Salient · Scarcity · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology
Culture and Experience
Contested Terrain
The Limits to Growth
The lean years politics in the age of scarcity
The Lean Years
Economics
Scarcity and Inequality
The Limits to Growth
Political Philosophy and Time
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism
Mankind at the Turning Point
The Fear of Equality
Person, Time, and Conduct in Bali
Bloody Time and Bloody Scarcity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 1985 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |