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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
"Corrupt, inefficient, and arbitrary" are not part of the definition of "command economy" if we are to speak "technically". They just are the inevitable results so far as we know. We do not of course know just how poorly Centrum works at home.
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I believe "arbitrary" _is_ a part of the definition. Inefficient is just the result in all of our experience and corrupt is very common. If Centrum is none of these things then lumping it in with what we call "command economies" is misleading.