There is also a scarcity value to the life insurance business.

Events, on the other hand, have greater scarcity value the more people can afford to attend.

"There is a scarcity value involved there, so I would expect a number of companies to look at this."

Any National Labour figure (they had great scarcity value) was absolutely safe in his office.

In other words, a scarcity value attaches at present to the possession of a licence.

Scarcity value is the economic factor that increases an item's relative price based more upon its relatively low supply.

They had reduced human populations to the point where men had scarcity value and could bargain for their labour once again.

Scarcity value apart, the Stag is made of the right stuff by classic yardsticks.

Land acquires a scarcity value owing to the competing needs of the community for living, working and leisure space.

"The secret is that scarcity value.

But taxi owners long ago persuaded the city to treat medallions as personal property whose scarcity value would be guarded by the regulators.

In vineyards north of Bordeaux, some of them very small, I bought bottles with a scarcity value which would never come on the market.

Misprints, promotional comic-dealer incentive printings, and similar issues with extremely low distribution also generally have scarcity value.

In the seventeenth century North America was so thinly populated that it was hard to think that a particular piece of land had scarcity value.

That's about one third of the current Gross World Value, and even that doesn't make proper assessment of its scarcity value, if you ask me.

The difference is, in western art the image doesn't count as much as the hype behind the idea and artist's name and scarcity value of the work.

But whatever the reason, these takeovers add "scarcity value" to the stock prices of the thrifts that remain, Mr. McDermott said.

These judgements use a variety of cross-cutting (and often contradictory) criteria, including productiveness, social importance, scarcity value, degree and type of mystery.

Singer also advocated the preservation of "world heritage sites," unspoilt parts of the world that acquire a "scarcity value" as they diminish over time.

Immigrants may be depriving native dropouts of the scarcity value they might have enjoyed, but at least in a historical sense, unskilled labor is not in surplus.

The basic problem is that if people ignore the scarcity value of the commons, they can end up expending too much effort, over harvesting a resource (e.g., a fishery).

Talk story about the end of the De Beers diamond monopoly...For sixty years, De Beers made sure that diamonds retained their scarcity value.

"There has been a huge turnaround among the credit card issuers over the past three years, and with MBNA being acquired, there's some scarcity value for Providian.

But even if those rules are abolished and Mr. Tisch chooses to sell, just how much will CBS's scarcity value count in comparison with its seemingly poor future?

Yesterday, even as it announced plans to issue 155 million more shares, it persuaded Wall Street that its shares had a scarcity value and that it did not want to part with them.