tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542518648627849085.post1279198992264296672..comments2024-02-11T06:00:30.938-07:00Comments on Skeptical Eye: Finally, a leftist with SOME economic senseNickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09991410496107221875noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542518648627849085.post-8292184712312292772009-10-27T21:59:40.221-07:002009-10-27T21:59:40.221-07:00Non-market economic theory is only applicable for ...Non-market economic theory is only applicable for certain industries. Anyone who understands the problems faced by the command economies of Russia and China will know that exerting control over an entire country's market is not going to work, especially in the democratic format of parecon.<br /><br />Mob rule over the market? I can't even imagine what we'd end up with... maybe drowning in porn. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02504734487692109101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-542518648627849085.post-45500284429736246082009-10-27T17:05:42.228-07:002009-10-27T17:05:42.228-07:00I can't disagree.
Without the market, there i...I can't disagree.<br /><br />Without the market, there is no way to know what and how much to produce, or how to set prices for goods, etc. <br /><br />Unless you enjoy standing in line for six hours waiting to buy the only vegetable in the store, which happens to be cucumbers ("whoops, too many cucumbers, we planned wrong!"), tons and tons of cucumbers and nothing else, you'll be in favor of a market as opposed to non-market economy.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09991410496107221875noreply@blogger.com