If you remember, I put community/love after food and shelter. But clean water should have been first. There are people wihtout access to clean water because we’ve commoditized it. That’s the free market for you. something nature makes that is a necessity for human life is now a commodity.
Yet another facet of the postwar economy is not only did we not have competition for the first decade or so, we also made way for US manufacturers overseas, especially in Europe via the Marshall Plan, and in Japan, via rebuilding. We also fought a protracted battle with the soviets over expanding into the decolonizing world. That was pretty much the where, what, and why of the Cold War. But then, we helped to build up our competition… again, see japan.
We’re just going to have to disagree.A market economy is a specific thing. Again, see Polyani.
Not all market regulation is “central planning” as you seem to think.
