
5.E By the dry heart of empire
The History of India Podcast
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The Scarcity Hypothesis
If we go by modern economic theory the scarcity explanation is the first one that comes to mind. There's plenty of evidence historically as well from many parts of the world that scarcity was something which was a real enterprise, especially when we look at prehistoric human histories. But my sort of objection against the scarcity hypothesis is that it kind of does not consider human cultural perspectives," he says.
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