HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wage Labour, Immanence, Potential Output
8 Aug 2017
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In contrast to tradition, the second great coordinative mechanism is called command. As the name indicates, it solves the problems of production and distribution by orders from above. These may be the commands of a pharaoh or the laws of a state; on a smaller scale they may be the authority of a headman or a community council, Differs from tradition in two very important ways. First, it requires an enforcement mechanism different from the internalized pressures of socialization. That mechanism is coercion the actual or threatened use of punishment. Command backed only by the pressures of existing mores and beliefs would be no more than a form of tradition. Iv gain to make the point, although there are assuredly economic problems in tradition- and. Command-run societies, there is no economics in either of them no understanding that we would lack if we fully grasped their cultures, their technical means, and their political arrangements.
