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Option B.
- The central concern of economics is scarcity.
- Scarcity is one of the most basic problem every economy faces.
- Human wants are unlimited but the resources needed inorder to satisfy these wants are getting depleted from time to time which has increased the scarcity.
- Economics deals with the issues of scarcity on deciding how to produce and what to produce from these limited resources.
- It has always tried to find solutions to overcome the problem of scarcity by increasing the cost of the scarce resources inorder to discourage the reckless use of these resources.
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