Central administrative command planning and the market system are incompatible due to (1) the ex ante versus ex post method of pricing in the two systems; (2) the antithetical relation of mandatory instructions and economic freedom; and (3) the inability of state capital to compete successfully with private capital. No in-between construct of a socialist market system is viable. It has to be either plan or market.
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