Translation of "Künstliche verknappung" in English

For artificial scarcity will remain a basic requirement for commodity producing society.

A greater distribution of the means of production, environmentally sound supply chains, and a newly relevant DIY maker culture can hope to transcend artificial scarcity.

It also required that the transmission system operator is prevented from withholding capacity to create artificial scarcity.

Former SOEs--whose market valuation is pumped up by the artificial shortage of tradable shares--account for more than nine-tenths of the 1,224 companies listed on China's stock exchanges.

Furthermore, Hoechst maintains that the Commission ought to have proved, in addition, that agreements on volumes had led to an artificial scarcity of supply and thus to abusive prices being charged to buyers.

The basic tenets of this movement are that in the new digital environment the attempt to protect the business model of the 20th-century culture industry inevitably clashes with a revolt against the “artificial scarcity” this imposes and risks bringing about a world of pervasive surveillance and mass illegality, while dramatically reducing the potential of democratic and creative expression in culture.

Whether with regard to the sphere of the physical or of the intangible, in a society organized along capitalistic lines the law of private property rules: "artificial" scarcity is in general a necessary condition for the valorization of capital.

Artificial shortage and other purchase incentives are avoided due to their love for music.

So long as this oversupply exists, the fierce competition to find and keep jobs may bid up the ante for credentials indefinitely thus perpetuating occupational rigidities which create artificial shortages of skills and breed low productivity.

For this reason, the Nazis kept radio frequencies artificially scarce because Goebbels wanted forced conformity, not diversity which would have been technically feasible.

Food deliveries from other parts of the country to Bengal were refused by the government, on the one hand in order to weaken the independence movement, on the other hand in order to make food artificially scarce. This was an especially cruel policy introduced in 1942 under the title "Rice Denial Scheme." The purpose of it was to deny an efficient food supply to the Japanese after a possible invasion.

Artificial shortage drives up prices that most of the world's population cannot afford anymore.

Sustainability in the first place stands out against the currently dominating commodification of knowledge and information, which is mostly aimed at the short-term exploitation and artificial shortage of knowledge. In the long run, sustainability aims at securing individual an social development and freedom in the use of knowledge and information.

But this accumulation, which - due to interest and speculation - is possible even without any production of goods, causes on the one hand an artificial shortage of capital and on the other hand its devaluation {26}.

One of the central themes of the charter - freedom of knowledge vs intellectual property rights - represented a common thread of many of the working groups and presentations: Who controls knowledge and information, and what can be done against the prevalent commodification of knowledge, which is based on exploitation and artificial shortage of this generally free good? Stefan Merten from the organisation Oekonux set the tone at the very beginning by calling for the abolition of intellectual property rights for creative acts and referring to Copyleft as an alternative.

This will lead to an artificial shortage and longer delivery times.

Controlling supply and creating an artificial scarcity of an otherwise abundant resource.

However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to procure them due to an artificial scarcity created by the Chinese government.

To that end, the EU bought gigantic amounts of agricultural produce and simply allowed it to rot, creating an artificial shortage which pushed up prices.

With an intentional supply shortage, Vetements is able to boost the exclusivity of its items: " We always supply less than the demand, so we're always sold out," said Guram .

With subtle irony, Baudelaire and Ahmimou create a connection between the art market and the production of luxury goods that refers to mechanisms of artificial scarcity and the conflict-laden relationships between art and economy.

Digitalization poses a challenge to the existentialist importance of artificial scarcity to capitalism – as well as to the modern concept of copyright.