How to Use command economy in a Sentence

command economy

noun
  • 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
  • The advantages of free markets and the faults of a command economy are clear in hindsight.
    — 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
  • Without the centralized command economy, many social and health services could no longer run.
    — The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
  • That was a relic of the command economy and the PBOC wanted to change it.
    — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The old Russian command economy had no choice but to adapt to free market forces, and its workers and consumers were beginning to respond.
    — John Kleinheinz, Fortune, 31 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 was there any other way to develop the economy, except for moving from state ownership to private ownership and from a command economy to a market economy?
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The region was riven with power struggles and violence as the country lurched from a collapsing Soviet command economy to something completely new.
    — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • After the crisis, Deng sidelined the conservatives, led by Premier Li Peng, who wanted to maintain a command economy.
    — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • There, the command economy of a sprawling Communist state heaved itself into military competitiveness with the United States.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Deng concluded that China needed more of a market economy than the strictly hierarchical, top-down command economy established by Mao Zedong.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Cuba, with a Soviet-style command economy, has been unwilling to loosen restrictions on the private sector and open its economy to foreign investment, as many allies like Vietnam and China have urged it to do.
    — Orlando Matos, NBC news, 6 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Underdeveloped Entrepreneurial Sector China’s command economy is incompatible with the development of a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem.
    — George Calhoun, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026

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