Soviet Economic Growth

[John_James]

@The Bomb19

That’s a pretty poor rebuttal. Do you have any evidence of major tweaking?

That’s interesting; a request for evidence of claims from a person who provides none of her own.

Also I assume you’re not familiar with the term “Potemkin village”.

If central planning is such a poor system, then why did the average standard of living increase so much in such a short space of time?

How are you measuring average standard of living? From what time period? Specifics please.

under a free market system, would the USSR have experienced more growth and development? Remember, in the early 20th century the USSR was an agrarian society, perhaps 100 years behind the rest of europe.

Hmm. Interesting. I wonder why that is.

My question is whether the USSR was able to benefit from the government targeting key areas to drive growth, and if this is the case, surely this is a better economic model for development than your pure free market system.

It doesn’t sound like that’s your question, it sounds like that’s your assertion…and a conclusion you’ve come to based on more or less nothing other than just what you’d like to believe. Again, you’ve presented this “virtues of central planning” notion elsewhere, and nowhere have you provided any support for it whatsoever. Based on your MO of starting a thread and then abandoning it to go start another one, it’s not surprising that you haven’t addressed any of the questions asked of you and haven’t provided any support for any of your claims in any of the threads you’ve started…but it would be nice to be surprised.