How to Use command economy in a Sentence

command economy

noun

• That was a relic of the command economy and the PBOC wanted to change it.
  — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
• The advantages of free markets and the faults of a command economy are clear in hindsight.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• The command economy does not work long-term and will not work for agriculture (or us) long-term either.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• Five-year plans are a legacy of China's command economy during the Mao era.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN, 25 Dec. 2020
• As part of a legacy left by the Soviet Union’s command economy, the cotton harvest remains a defining feature of life for many Uzbeks.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
• But a better system for stocking the shelves, even in theory, would entail something much more like a command economy of the old Soviet stripe.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• Without the centralized command economy, many social and health services could no longer run.
  — The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
• On the other side of the ledger, Cuba’s Soviet-style command economy still employs three of every four Cuban workers but produces little.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• On the other side of the ledger, Cuba's Soviet-style command economy still employs three of every four Cuban workers but produces little.
  — Michael Weissenstein and Andrea Rodriguez, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2018
• Even at the height of the chiefdoms' power, Raleigh Island was at the very edge of its political reach, so the islanders probably maintained their independence from the pre-Columbian command economy.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2019
• The problem with a command economy is policies tend to create unintended consequences, which inevitably lead to heavy-handed crackdowns.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 18 July 2017
• While this news item may be the most over-the-top beer promotion ever, North Korea is not the only authoritarian regime to incorporate beer brewing into a command economy.
  — Markus Haas, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2018
• Overall, the restructuring aims to reverse a trend started four decades ago when Beijing started free-market reforms to invigorate the sluggish command economy.
  — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2018
• There, the command economy of a sprawling Communist state heaved itself into military competitiveness with the United States.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
• Raul Castro carried on the tradition with a decade of reform that promoted decentralization while retaining control of the command economy.
  — Mac Margolis, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• The new regulations suggest that Chinese leadership in some ways wishes to turn back the clock to a simpler and purer Socialist era, perhaps a more self-reliant one that is more driven by command economy concerns and is less capitalistic.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• For two decades beginning in the 1980s, the Chinese leadership ostensibly shifted the country from an austere command economy to a unique blend of market and state control that is often credited with the country’s ascendance to relative prosperity.
  — Frank Dikotter, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• Cuba's constitutional reform is expected to encompass a wide range of modernizing changes to the country's 1976 constitution, which was designed for a Soviet-style command economy.
  — NBC News, 7 May 2018
• In economic terms, modern agricultural methods represent a Soviet-style command economy versus the free market economy of natural ecosystems.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• Centrally planned command economies failed spectacularly, revealing that communists had no economic solution to the modern riddles of injustice and inequality, and were, furthermore, devastatingly blind to their own environmental depredations.
  — Pankaj Mishra, Twin Cities, 11 July 2019

Last Updated: 19 Oct 2024