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Planning is not a viable alternative to capitalism, and that should worry even capitalism's defenders because the system then faces no competition.

Drawn from what Cosma Rohilla Shalizi said

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capitalism Markets as a system rather than a market: what it is for, what it costs, and what people mean when they say they are retiring from it.

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  1. Cosma Rohilla Shalizi Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems
    That planning is not a viable alternative to capitalism (as opposed to a tool within it) should disturb even capitalism's most ardent partisans. It means that their system faces no competition, nor even any plausible threat of competition.

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