Command Economy Vs Command System

A command economy is an economy controlled by the government. The government decides everything from the production to income. A free market system is an economy where prices are determined by privately owned business. The difference between a command economy and a free market system is that one is controlled by the government government and the other is controlled by businesses. By the end of the story Animalism is a complete command economy because the produce is controlled by the pigs. They decided how much is produced and who it goes to. They are the government in the book. Napoleon forces the hens to give over their eggs so he can sell them to make profit. Napoleon also overworks the animals by deciding that the animals will not hold debates
on sundays anymore, instead they would be able volunteer to work, and anybody that does not volunteer will have their portions cut in half. Napoleon also decided between Frederick and Pilkington on who got the pile of timber even though the animals did not want to trade with humans. He kept going back and forth between them and eventually chose Frederick, to the animals horror. Since money was short on the farm Napoleon decided what was to be sold, like the hay, part of the potato crop, eggs, which increased to six hundred a week. Rations were reduced and the usage of lanterns in the stalls were forbidden to save oil. Napoleon and the pigs, in this novel, are the government in this economy, because they decided what was to be sold and what was to be kept. The animals are the workers that get the bare minimum in return for all the labor they do.