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If you define efficiency in quality terms, then command economies are often more efficient than free market economies. Quality indicators could include fairness (how evenly distributed services and goods are), literacy, infant mortality/invested $, life expectancy/invested $ etc. In soviet russia everybody had healthcare and housing. This means that they had a high quality on these services. That means those services had a high efficiency (because they were very cheap for the state to maintain). Soviet russia was only inefficient if you only choose to consider the owners (the one earning profits) perspective and not the consumers. People starve in the US. That means that the US economy is inefficient ie low quality (sorry, couldnt resist some maligning).