Hoarding creates artificial scarcity.

True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is A True
Hoarding in economics refers to maintaining unaccounted stocks of many commodities to safeguard oneself from rise in general price level i.e. inflation or to reap the benefits of future rise in prices. This act leads to decrease of supply of the commodity, leading to artificial scarcity in the market and further rise in price.

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