Peter_de_Blanc comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 23 October 2009 02:02:18PM 5 points [-]

I've run across that argument a couple times, and my reply has been that all economies are planned. Some are planned by a small number of dumb humans with inadequate data, and others are planned by a very large number of dumb humans with more data, and the latter are called market economies.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 30 December 2011 02:11:28AM -1 points [-]

Also a planned economy can choose to use markets when it predicts they will achieve the desired result cost effectively.