The evidence was presented 50 years ago under the label of Soviet Union. USSR couldn’t produce shit.
Pricing signals are also bad at some things.
Saying "the government is bad at producing things" is an overgeneralization. It'd be bad to put it in charge of producing everything. But putting markets in charge of producing everything has points of failure too, which is why we're having this conversation.
No it doesn’t. As soon as governments clearly states that they want to purchase a hundred billion masks and ventilators, market will react very quickly.
They government did not post that request yet.
If these rocket engines are cheaper, why not buy something from someone who is producing them below production cost? Good for US, they save money.
I thought this was common knowledge for 30 years.
There are also risks to having someone else manufacture a widget that incorporates technology you'd rather not spread around.
This is why there will always be at least one domestic chip foundry, and most of the critical components of ICBM's /nuclear weapons are manufactured domestically as I understand it. Medical equipment also falls under that umbrella. Hell, even taps and dies do. God bless Admiral Rickover in that regard.
Somehow? With captured German rocket scientists.
Same as USA.
That said, there are reasons why USSR was first in space. For example, USSR deliberately ignored human life cost. In particular, they seriously considered first human flight to be a failure, so they announced it publicly only after Gagarin landed successfully.
British empire did war mostly on the sea, so US and British Empire were much better at producing ships, aircrafts, and also radio, radars and other electronics.
Tanks is good but it is much less important than strategy, logistics, food, drugs and saving human lives.
USSR killed a huge number of own citizens (including execution of so called deserters). Well, good for the rest of allies.
Stalin fleeced the Kuleks to pay for Americans to build factories just before WW2, after Ford's River Rouge industrial city was completed.
He did a good job on T-34 production, but around half of Soviet armaments came from the USA during WW2. The tanks were directly driven to the front - no parking lot needed! :)
Stalin is portayed as a monster because he was. But he was also the great leader his country needed at that time.