Think about the difference between scarcity and shortage. which of the following is not a shortage? a. during the seasonal rush, the shopkeeper ran out of the popular mp3 players because they were on backorder at the warehouse, leaving him without any to restock his shelves. b. ron knew he has more to do than time allowed, but he tried unsuccessfully to fit all of his social events in anyway. c. after the hot, dry summer destroyed half of the crops in south texas, there we decidedly fewer peaches available during the late summer and early fall. d. following world war i, the french labor force was negatively affected by the large number of male war casualties. as a result, there were far more jobs than people to fill them.