War revealed markets cannot allocate labor efficiently without state planning.

Evidence

Beyond the expansion of the pool of workers and their greater exploitation, the government had to undertake a number of planning tasks to compensate for the inability of the laws of the market to distribute labor power effi ciently among industries. Political control over labor mobility allowed the government to shift work wherever it deemed necessary. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 174

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: War exposed the market’s self-regulating capacity as inadequate for total production — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 106; State wartime economic control exposed production relations as politically contestable. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 216; Wartime state intervention exposed market arrangements as political choices, not natural facts — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 34 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Market logic failed to meet wartime production needs. #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 166
• War exposed the market’s self-regulating capacity as inadequate for total production #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 106
• Wartime state intervention exposed market arrangements as political choices, not natural facts #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 34
• State wartime economic control exposed production relations as politically contestable. #expands (0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 216
• State discipline, not wages, resolved wartime labor scarcity for capital #exemplifies (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 171
• War-era state labor regulation revealed wages as political decisions, not market outcomes #exemplifies (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 108
• Wartime state control proved economies are politically moldable #expands (0.78) — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 29
• AI unemployment is unpredictable because capitalism lacks any collective economic planning. #exemplifies (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 248