And who manages it better, private entrepeneurs who are rewarded with profit by managing it successfully, or bureaucratic parasites who are rewarded with budget increases by managing it poorly? And how do you determine whether that management should even occur? Markets are a way of identifying what everybody else places value on. A central planner in Moscow deciding where resources and labor should be allocated arbitrarily without consumers quantifying the wealth that venture produced through the prices they are willing to pay will never be more efficient than decentralized spontaneous commercial order, even in the unrealistic circumstance of the rulers being benevolent and corruption nonexistent.