Economists like to demonstrate the archaic nature of command planning with mind-games like ‘imagine the Soviet Union tried to…

“Economists like to demonstrate the archaic nature of command planning with mind-games like ‘imagine the Soviet Union tried to create Starbucks’. Now, here’s a more intriguing game: imagine if Amazon, Toyota or Boeing tried to create Wikipedia.”

–A review of Paul Mason’s‘Post Capitalism: a Guide to Our Future’by Irvine Welsh