Question

Resources are not but they become in economics

Answer 1

Zimmermann rejected the assumption of fixity. Resources are not known, fixed things; they are what humans employ to service wants at a given time. To Zimmermann (1933, 3; 1951, 14), only human "appraisal" turns the "neutral stuff" of the earth intoresources. ... According to Zimmermann, "resources are not, they become."