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Re: Economic theory and politics.
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Originally Posted by Ambiguous
It won't be a transition from command to market. You can't really achieve a market economy if you start from a position of government control because the government will be loath to give up that control. It may have elements of free enterprise, but it would be closer to a socialist or fascist economy.
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Tell that to China. It is on a very fine line between "closer to a socialist" and "closer to a capitalist" economy--and how does one even define that line? Anyway, it doesn't make sense to assert that you can't really achieve a market economy if you start from a position of government control: you are telling a large portion of the world that all of their reforms are doomed simply because of the position they started in. I don't really understand your assertion here, either. Are you saying that any public regulation at all makes the economy closer to a command system than a free trade system?
What policies would you suggest to a state with an economy changing from command to market?
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