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Aren't modern corporations' internal structures effectively command economies in miniature? When I worked in industry, we didn't have competing QA departments bidding on contracts from competing production lines. This isn't a rhetorical flourish, I'm genuinely curious about what distinctions there are that make even large corporate command structures feasible but national command structures infeasible.
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Thanks for the info! And the story of the Sears guy is exactly what got me thinking down these lines (and I've found a similar argument with corporations as miniature dictatorships is a good way to explain the idea of workplace democracy). Have economists or political philosophers discussed the comparison much?
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Feb 28, 2017 00:07
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tekz posted:The distinction is that corporate command structures theoretically face competition from other corporate command structures and the most efficient ones win out. Countries theoretically compete with other countries, though I suppose a distinction could be made about how much choice a "consumer" has in which country to operate in.
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Feb 28, 2017 04:25
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Come join us, friend.
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