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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But a planned economy, you could say is, in essence, an extremely tightly regulated market.

Why do you believe this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because without regulations ... it can not be planned? Like at all?

It is in the name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You know you can do planning without markets right? Like without price signals and entities buying and selling to each other

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I think you are overthinking what I said. I just said a plan economy is muchbcloser to tightly regulated market than a free market, trying to highlight that what OP is advocating is still somewhat a leftist idea.

The reason I think that, if you assume that free market capitalism is defined by absence of conditions of transactions and absence of forces transactions, then a planned economy sounds something like: all transactions are effectively forced, and there a hell of a lot conditions for these transactions.

I understand that they manifest, but it's a good simplification, formthe argument that tool place above, in my opinion.