What is the defference between market and command economy in reality?
think of government intervention – like the welfare state – then add back the water gas electric into government control, then add the buses & trains, then set up toll roads everywhere with the government getting paid, then regulate the stock market till almost everything traded is government stock, then bring the airlines back into government control then the prison transfer service then buy up al of the car manufacturers buildings & make them government controlled then buy up all the banks & make them government then buy up majority rights in all the media & newspapers Then- think about what motivates a government & how they are measured – in other words – they would run rubbish in reality – because bureaucrats have no clue how to run a newspaper or airline, but they know that if they can get 3 people into 1 persons job then unemployment will be low & wed all be in a job. this – apart fro the usual political crap – is the practical reason why command economies like Russia never worke