Compare the Ways in Which Resources are Allocated in Market and Command Economies.(10)
kind. But that simply hasn't happened where people are allowed to choose from a wide selection of clothing products.
Even though I have used a secondary good as my example in this comparison, the concept of distribution is the same. The fundamental difference is the freedom that suppliers have in market economies to both buy primary resources and sell their own product at a competitive rate, hence the growth of various clothing companies clothing, designer wear etc.
In a command economy however, distribution of resources is limited to one destination e.g. a clothing company selling one style of jumper that may be considered politically acceptable or economically practical to the central planners.