Command economies, as in the former Soviet Union, often have terrible shortages of common consumer goods like bathroom tissue. How do market economies usually avoid such terrible shortages? In command economies, incompetent leaders make foolish decisions while market economies have smarter leaders Command economies plan their production so that there will be some shortages. In market economies, consumers learn not to want things that are not supplied, so there can never be a real shortage in a market economy. In market economiesshortages push prices up leading to a greaterquantity supplied
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1663 my friend told me that you could find the answer on there. Not sure how correct he is though haha
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