You make it sound as though they're mutually exclusive. Economics is a body of knowledge. Marketing is an action.
Incidentally any action taken in a free market can be described in terms of Economics, even when there's no currency changing hands (e.g. opportunity costs on the part of the seller/buyer).
If you're looking for the scarcities in the "Economics of free," I think 2 are pretty straightforward: Buyers' and sellers' Time (current), and the sellers' Product (future) that's certain to follow any "free" strategy.
"Free" stuff still falls under the purview of economics because there is some scarcity lurking somewhere, as you correctly point out. It's just funny to read "economics of scarcity" if you are familiar with one of the traditional definitions of economics.
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"economics of scarcity"
The definition of economics is the study of resource allocation under scarcity. Giving away stuff for free is marketing, not economics.
You make it sound as though they're mutually exclusive. Economics is a body of knowledge. Marketing is an action.
Incidentally any action taken in a free market can be described in terms of Economics, even when there's no currency changing hands (e.g. opportunity costs on the part of the seller/buyer).
If you're looking for the scarcities in the "Economics of free," I think 2 are pretty straightforward: Buyers' and sellers' Time (current), and the sellers' Product (future) that's certain to follow any "free" strategy.
"Free" stuff still falls under the purview of economics because there is some scarcity lurking somewhere, as you correctly point out. It's just funny to read "economics of scarcity" if you are familiar with one of the traditional definitions of economics.
Well I guess you got me there, but you can give scarce stuff away for allocation...
"The economics of artificial scarcity," perhaps, is what he meant.