Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:1263 gnu.misc.discuss:693 talk.politics.misc:39982 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,gnu.misc.discuss,talk.politics.misc Subject: Re: Free market vs Central planning Message-ID: <4853@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 29 Dec 89 18:28:32 GMT References: <4639@sugar.hackercorp.com> <4ZW1ijS00WBKE1qh5C@andrew.cmu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 18 > If the free > market is so efficient and capable in bringing goods to market, then > why don't companies use the free market internally? Some do. Universities, for instance, use the market to allocate central computing resources. They don't use the feedback from the market to purchase new resources, which distorts things. Also, almost any company that has subsiduaries allocates resources to the subsiduary and gives it considerable free rein. Smaller units, though, are a different matter. Central planning still works on a small enough scale. It just doesn't scale up very well. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' 'U` "I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on tape somewhere"