command economy
noun
: an economic system in which activity is controlled by a central authority and the means of production are publicly owned
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Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and his allies made reforms and gradually steered China away from a command economy and Maoist dogma and opened it up to foreign investments and technology.
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Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
The country’s command economy rallied clean energy companies, helping grow national and international champions in green energy.
—Grace Shao, Fortune Asia, 10 Oct. 2024
As the security services played whack-a-mole with new activist movements, the economic stress of the 1980s overwhelmed the GDR’s command economy.
—Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
Deng concluded that China needed more of a market economy than the strictly hierarchical, top-down command economy established by Mao Zedong.
—Win McCormack, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
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Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
The country’s command economy rallied clean energy companies, helping grow national and international champions in green energy.
—Grace Shao, Fortune Asia, 10 Oct. 2024
As the security services played whack-a-mole with new activist movements, the economic stress of the 1980s overwhelmed the GDR’s command economy.
—Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
Deng concluded that China needed more of a market economy than the strictly hierarchical, top-down command economy established by Mao Zedong.
—Win McCormack, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
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“Command economy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/command%20economy. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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