Was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Right About the “Scarcity Mindset”?

In an earlier article, I suggested AOC misconstrued “scarcity.” She might have been right.

Jonathan Church
Arc Digital
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7 min readSep 19, 2019

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In a prior article for Arc Digital, I argued that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) misconstrued a basic principle of economics by conflating scarcity with distribution.

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Jonathan Church
Arc Digital

Jonathan Church is an economist and writer. His publications are linked at www.jonathandavidchurch.com, and he can be found on Twitter @jondavidchurch.