National economies can be run from the top down, so to speak, in what is sometimes called a command economy or they can be run from the bottom up in what is sometimes called a free market. In the ...

A command economy is one in which a centralized government controls the means of production. This has both advantages and disadvantages when compared to a free-market economy, ...

California’s crony command economy may be currently limited in scope to the fast-food sector, but this is presumably not the end of the Golden State’s heedless attempts to supposedly help workers.

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