Central planning is very good at big, well-defined projects. It's not very good at distributing the end product.
--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:
> And wasn't much of this innovation (flying autos,
> notwithstanding) actually
> achieved under the Soviet regime? For instance, Soviet
> war-time production
> and innovation, among other things, was pretty goddamn
> impressive: the T-34
> and Il-2 were the best and most important weapons of their
> kind; designed,
> tested, and produced under incredible circumstances. Sure
> the Manhattan
> Project was a wonder, but as we know now, it didn't do
> much to end the war.
> And the Soviet space program was pretty cool, too, among
> other things.