What does it mean to have a command economy, and what were two ways in which it proved inefficient and unwieldy?
In a command economy, a central agency, which for the USSR was the Gosplan, formulates national plans, which are then communicated down the chain until reaching individuals.
This was an unwieldy and inefficient process in several ways. First, the planners in Moscow were essentially required to act as CEOs of a giant corporation, effectively "USSR, Inc.," that would manage the economy of an area larger than North America—a gargantuan, impossible task. Further, the Soviet planning bureaucracy had no free market to guide it, so the system produced goods that people would not buy or failed to produce goods that people would have liked to buy. And Gosplan stated production targets in quantitative rather than qualitative terms, churning out abundant but substandard products.
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