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> This is obviously true of communist countries that have never shown compelling evidence that centralized planning is beneficial.

USSR evacuated the large chunk of industry East during first months of Germany invasion in 1941 in a centralized manner, and that industry quickly started to work for the army.

NASA solved the problem of sending men on the Moon in 8 years in a centralized fashion.

Centralized planning does have its strengths.

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You chose two pretty out-there examples to prove the point; I'll leave it to the class to determine why.

Your first example is a rosy picture of a military strategy whose only metric is "have we lost the war"?

Your second example is a project with a very clear and fixed and time-bounded outcome which has no externality or had any requirement to serve as infrastructure.

It makes as much sense to claim your examples as proof central planning works as it would be to claim the bulk of the automotive industry is capitalist and everyone drives cars. It might be true, but ignores all the negative externalities of the existing transportation network.

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