https://timeb.news/tags/scarcity-theory/Recent content in Scarcity Theory on TimeB.news – Time Economics & Scarcity TheoryHugoenSat, 30 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/time-is-the-rate-rethinking-interest-through-temporal-scarcity/Sat, 30 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/time-is-the-rate-rethinking-interest-through-temporal-scarcity/<h2 id="the-question-that-connects-everything">The Question That Connects Everything</h2> <p>What is interest, really? Is it a reward for waiting, a compensation for risk, or something deeper?</p> <p>Irving Fisher, the great American economist, defined interest as the premium that connects present goods to future goods. But Fisher lacked one thing blockchain now provides: <strong>empirical time-preference data at the transaction level</strong>.</p> <h2 id="the-time-rate-of-interest">The Time Rate of Interest</h2> <p>We propose a refinement: the <strong>time rate of interest</strong> — the premium embedded in an asset purely because of when it exists in time, independent of credit risk or inflation expectations.</p>https://timeb.news/posts/time-scarcity-the-most-overlooked-dimension-in-asset-valuation/Wed, 27 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000https://timeb.news/posts/time-scarcity-the-most-overlooked-dimension-in-asset-valuation/<h2 id="introduction-the-missing-dimension">Introduction: The Missing Dimension</h2> <p>In classical economics, scarcity is a function of supply and demand. A barrel of oil is scarce because there are only so many barrels underground. A Picasso painting is scarce because only one exists. But there is a second, orthogonal kind of scarcity that operates alongside supply scarcity — <strong>time scarcity</strong>.</p> <p>Time scarcity arises not from <em>how many</em> units exist, but from <em>when</em> those units were created or acquired. Two bitcoins are interchangeable as tokens, yet a bitcoin mined in 2010 carries a different economic significance than one mined in 2025. A first-edition book contains the same text as a tenth edition — but the market values them differently.</p>