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Re:The queen does not rule by Retric on Friday December 23, 2016 @05:07PM (#13247466)
There are actually good counter examples where central planning wins. They are often contentious like Medicine, but the advantage markets bring is robustness not effecency. In a famine market economies have some people starve more and others starve less.
Re:The queen does not rule by YokoZar on Friday December 23, 2016 @09:25PM (#13248265)
You can't just assume a famine starts and then look what happens. The whole point of pricing signals is that it changes what gets produced, making shortages less likely to occur in the first place.
Re:The queen does not rule by Retric on Saturday December 24, 2016 @04:37PM (#13251721)
We have thousands of years of history with a huge range of causes. But, there are a large number of famines across all economic systems.