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To: longshadow
That pretty well says it all.

I'd say it does. It should. Somehow, it won't. There's some reason it won't.

Almost the only economy I can remember that had anything like an identifiable designer was the Soviet economy from the time of collectivization through Stalin's death. Even then, a mostly underground and formally illegal black market--the residue of former capitalism--was the final resort for getting goods where they were needed.

80 posted on 01/05/2006 6:13:19 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro
Even then, a mostly underground and formally illegal black market--the residue of former capitalism--was the final resort for getting goods where they were needed.

I've seen published CIA reports from those days (for what they're worth) that the small private plots allowed on collective farms, where the slave workers were free to grow what they wanted and to sell the results at market prices, provided about 30% of the food grown in the USSR. And those private plots occupied about 5% of the land allocated to the collective farms. Shows what ID can do.

82 posted on 01/05/2006 6:24:05 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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