<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Japofran @ Oct 14 2007, 02:09 AM) [snapback]316007[/snapback]</div>
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You mean those countries are market-oriented in your opinion, or the other way around? All are members of the non-aligned movement (just like North Korea and Zimbabwe), etc.
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Are they communist, socialist? No.
Besides chumloofah said it well, market economy doesn't decide what's good for us but what's most profitable.
For instance some countries with famine export their food because it's more profitable than to sell it to the domestic market which has lower standard. The same is with oil in Nigeria and there are plenty of other examples of market oriented economies not functioning. Free market died in the 20th century and with a good reason it did.