Essentially, planned economic systems don't exist in real life (with a few notable exceptions, including North Korea) for two reasons:
1) To create a planned economic system is very complicated due to information centralisation, and would be very costly to maintain and implement. This serves as a barrier to making a planned system in the first instance.
2) Planned systems suffer from extraordinary economic inefficiencies due to incredible distortion of market signals, which normally allow individuals to make efficient good allocations and schedules. The organiser of the planned economy has to try and overcome this by perfectly predicting market equilibria and enforcing production quotas to maintain them. However, there is no incentive to follow quotas but force, since there is no reward from production.
economic system
A centrally planned economy with all economic and political power resting in the hands of the central government is known as communism. Karl Marx developed communism into a scientific theory.
No countries have or could have a Communist economic system. Communism is a classless stateless society based on production for use, with no money and no economy. Also, it would have to operate at a global level.
An economic system should be driven by free market forces, not government intervention. A+
Theoretically speaking communism is an economic system that includes which of the following characteristics?
economic system
A centrally planned economy with all economic and political power resting in the hands of the central government is known as communism. Karl Marx developed communism into a scientific theory.
No countries have or could have a Communist economic system. Communism is a classless stateless society based on production for use, with no money and no economy. Also, it would have to operate at a global level.
An economic system should be driven by free market forces, not government intervention. A+
No such theory exists
Centrally Planned Economies are typical of totalitarian countries such as Cuba, North Korea. The econonomic theory behind these governments is usually a form of Marxism.
World Systems Theory
An economic theory is a theory that has to do with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.
An Economic Theory of Democracy was created in 1957.
Journal of Economic Theory was created in 1969.
Theoretically speaking communism is an economic system that includes which of the following characteristics?
Historically, most Communist countries had planned economies (indicative of communist economic theory), but today, most Communist countries actually have capitalist economies with strong state presence.