Indian Command Economy

Nightingale

Nightingale

If the USSR somehow manages to fully integrate cybernetics and whatnot to its command economy, would India follow?

If yes, what would be the state of the Indian economy by 1985? How would the economy develop?

This is an alternative to my other thread, "What if India Reforms its economy early?".

More like a License Raj Command Cybernetic Economy. Would that be ok?
 
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Garrison

Donor
My thought is I have no idea what your talking about; what do you mean by integrating cybernetics into their command economy?
 
Indicus

Indicus

India would be devastated if it were to become a command economy. IOTL, its economy sucked when it was a command-leaning mixed economy and it would suck even more if it was more of a command economy
 
Nightingale

Nightingale

But if it had cybernetics integrated within the command economy, would it perform better? I know a command economy is very much inefficient without cybernetics.

And by cybernetic-integrated command economy, meaning a command economy that is high-tech, fully computerized, automated so as to remove any corruption and inefficiencies.
 

Panica

EcoBOOM said:
But if it had cybernetics integrated within the command economy, would it perform better? I know a command economy is very much inefficient without cybernetics.

And by cybernetic-integrated command economy, meaning a command economy that is high-tech, fully computerized, automated so as to remove any corruption and inefficiencies.
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No fundamental problem is not absence of Exel, database etc. But lack of incentives, true prices etc.. read Calculation in Socialist commonwealth
 

Undeadmuffin

You know that in 1980 india was 75 % agrarian, private owned by family ?
And 40 % of its income is both primary and service sector ? It had little industry at this time, so even a cybernetic command economy would fail has it would have to control hundred of thousand of small farm and market-based services.
 
Nightingale

Nightingale

Could it have done heavy industry industrialization like the USSR? IOTL the attempts were mediocre.

Or is that really turning India Communist?
 

MernStahl

Cybernetics would make central planning better yes. However, you would still have to overcome the problems present in the Indian economy to begin with - as others have pointed out, it was kind of 'primitive' in some regards and industrialisation could have been accomplished via other economic means - central planning is just one possible method which comes with its own problems.

Cybernetics would remove inefficiency to a degree, though not necessarily corruption. Issues with incentives may also be present, as well as alternatives - if you grant too much lower autonomy, it'd make more sense to ditch the command nature and just go free market since it stopped being planned long ago.
 
Nightingale

Nightingale

So how could India grow economically under a central bereaucratic cybernetic command economy? If Russia/USSR and China could do it (for initial industrialization; shifting to consumer goods is imperative as always), then how could it not apply in India? Was it due to sheer size? Well China is larger, so size doesn't matter. So what made a socialist economy unmanageablenin India? Or was their half-hearted attempt at being a command economy IOTL that brought India down?
 
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