If a command economy could work over the long term, then the dictatorship could survive.
Notwithstanding past IMF involvement, Romania remains a Stalinist command economy ravaged by collectivization and other inefficiencies.
Second, the White House flip-flop on Jackson-Vanik means sluicing money into a still unreformed command economy.
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Such progress is commendable, especially for what until very recently was a command economy.
Many of them still like the idea of a command economy and like the idea of issuing commands.
First, the price relationships in the United States are duplicated in China which is a command economy.
In other words Russia is not a command economy in any recognizable way.
As the Vietnamese leadership is finding, running a vibrant market economy is much harder than running a stunted command economy.
The collapse of the command economy is one thing that all the Caucasian and Central Asian republics have in common.
No serious person argues that a command economy is the most efficient way to identify and produce what people really want.
Still, China is a top-down command economy with nearly unlimited spending powers.
It has served as the model of the autarkic command economy that East bloc countries like Poland have largely been forced to emulate.
The Soviet Union has served as the model of the autarkic command economy that East bloc countries like Poland have traditionally been forced to emulate.
Under the command economy it was one of the very few companies that regularly did business with the West and thus had access to convertible currencies.
"We are not a command economy, " sniffs the SAR's secretary for trade and industry, Brian Chau Tak-hay, in an interview with the South China Morning Post.
The factories of the command economy have ground to a halt: fuel and other inputs are too expensive to run them, and workers often go unpaid.
Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh blamed the ongoing insurgency and the "socialist command economy" left behind by ousted dictator Saddam Hussein for the slow pace of reconstruction.
It was between running a society from the top down, with central control and a command economy, and from the bottom up, with dispersed power and a market economy.
If roads continue to be operated as one of the last relics of a Soviet-style command economy, then the consequence will be worsening traffic jams and eventual Bangkok-style gridlock.
The market economy that China seeks is overlaid by a Leninist system of political control that never convincingly did even the job it was designed for: running a command economy.
It may need some restructuring in the future - no question about that - but I don't think that nationalisation and the command economy that we used to have is really the answer.
So all the rewards in the form of cash and commodities that North Korea expects to reap from its nuclear diplomacy could easily be used to reinforce the command economy, and buy loyalty.
Measures needed to legitimize private property, free enterprise, repatriation of profits, etc. must be swiftly enacted and the sort of half-steps and bureaucratic impediments to dismantling the command economy favored heretofore by Gorbachev dispensed with.
There are even reports that it has tampered with its rigidly-controlled command economy by raising both prices and wages to something closer to a market level, in an attempt to breathe life into the moribund economy.
Strauss about the serious harm that can be done to international financial organizations like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank if an unreformed command economy like the Soviet Union's is prematurely made eligible for their lending programs.
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In a command economy the state also overwhelmingly owns the means of production: it owns the factories, the railroads, the land, it owns almost everything of importance outside of a few scraps of land on which farmers are allowed to grow their own crops.
If approved, it would eliminate one of the few constraints imposed last year (as a sop to American concerns) to prevent the USSR from perverting the institution from one intended to foster capitalist renewal in Central Europe to one that simply subsidizes an unreformed Soviet command economy.
It would be surprising if there were not profound differences over one of the biggest issues China faces: how to adapt the political system, organised along Leninist lines and designed for a monolithic command economy, to suit modern China, with a booming private sector and fast-growing middle class.
Finally, I had said before the debate that Romney would have to show a command of the economy and put it in personal terms a tough task.
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