JAMB - Economics (2012 - No. 1)
A major disadvantage of a socialist economy is that
corruption is rampant
consumer's sovereignty is lost
income inequality is entrenched
there is high level of unemployment
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One of the major criticisms of socialism are that socialist countries have a tendency to develop too many layers of bureaucracy, which leads to corrupt practices. The government controls much of the economy's resource. They decides the whats, whens, and hows of production.