Personal feelings about a political matter.
One characteristic was how society was controlled by a ruling elite of powerful clans.
The one characteristic of command economy is that the individual pursuit of wealth is replaced by a concerted effort from all economic channels to improve society as a whole.
B) I am just guessing, but after Jimmy Carter's administration we started making smaller cars, but it was still an issue. Since the "Star Wars" program was used as a ploy to end communism, defense spending actually went down. Republicans do not like welfare. The only other issues, republicans had was taxes. However, interest rates were at the highest during the Regan years.
The reconstruction
The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery. The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War.