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narrowed
2026-09-07

Law of Displaced Scarcity

Displaced Scarcity Hypothesis

Prior-art review found strong antecedents in bottleneck, complementarity, attention, limiting-factor and induced-demand economics. The law formulation was therefore withdrawn and retained only as a narrower, falsifiable organizing hypothesis pending formalization.