The collapse of the command economy is one thing that all the Caucasian and Central Asian republics have in common.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Many of them still like the idea of a command economy and like the idea of issuing commands.
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.
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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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.
The "command" part of the economy--namely the state-owned enterprises, the banks (which, though privatized, are still heavily influenced by directives from the People's Bank of China) and the heavy industry companies--will benefit from extra infrastructure spending.
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.
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.
No serious person argues that a command economy is the most efficient way to identify and produce what people really want.
Interestingly, in the final years of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev launched a charm offensive aimed at Western investors in the hope of keeping a failing communist system on Western life-support until the Kremlin could construct a more viable economic system (one such gambit was the oxymoronic "command market" economy).
If a command economy could work over the long term, then the dictatorship could survive.
China has adopted market economics while Cuba still has a command system with most of the economy under state control.
"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.
And although business plans cannot reproduce, successful ones do command a growing share of the economy's resources, as companies expand on the back of them and rivals copy them.
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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.
But Iraq suffers from one major disadvantage: it has been run, like the former Soviet Union, as a command-and-control economy.
First, the price relationships in the United States are duplicated in China which is a 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.
First, as the examples of China, Poland, Romania and others have demonstrated, greater integration into the global economy and large-scale infusions of Western capital, technology and investment into command economies do not automatically assure a transition into market-based reforms and necessary levels of political liberalization.
Second, the White House flip-flop on Jackson-Vanik means sluicing money into a still unreformed command economy.
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As the Vietnamese leadership is finding, running a vibrant market economy is much harder than running a stunted command economy.
Among them: a common desire to evolve from a command to a market economy, a mutual interest in containing Islam-fired nationalism in the new republics of Central Asia, and growing economic ties.
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