A história é Escassez , publicada em Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal , por Zach Weinersmith .
Economics,” said the fat man, “is the study of the allocation of scarce resources.”
The fat woman nodded.
“However,” he continued, searching through the papers on his desk for a particular one, “that is only a recent definition. In the past, economics has been the study of the allocation of very scarce resources.”
She nodded.
“Prior to that, it was extremely scarce resources.” At this point, he located a drawing of the descent of man. This drawing was unusual, in that at each evolutionary stage, the hominids were arguing with each other over something in the middle of them. “In fact,” he said, handing the image to her, economics can be traced all the way back to a particular March in 1,332,014 B.C. during which a group of sapiens in sub-Sahara Africa had to divy up a turnip. At that time, economics was defined as the study of the allocation of this one turnip.”
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