ABSTRACT
Command plays an important role in our market economy, though that role has been somewhat modified over the years. There was a day when an employer hired an employee, but once hired the employee could be and was ordered to do as he was told, and failing compliance would simply be fired. Command is still alive and well in business hierarchies, but it was much qualified by the rise of effective unions to check arbitrary use of management power, and sometimes more recently by management openness to input from employees. And, of course, government always has some commands, often of the "thou shalt not" variety.
