I think you’re right about the Warsaw Pact vs NATO arrangements. Explicitly organizing the state around central economic planning altered the power arrangement so the info-processing bureaucracy (including secret police) ends up being the central coordinating point.
I agree the second-order effects you mention are there, and maybe important to model that so as to not get confused by it, but I don’t think it has done very much so far except occasionally confuse people.
I think you’re right about the Warsaw Pact vs NATO arrangements. Explicitly organizing the state around central economic planning altered the power arrangement so the info-processing bureaucracy (including secret police) ends up being the central coordinating point.
I agree the second-order effects you mention are there, and maybe important to model that so as to not get confused by it, but I don’t think it has done very much so far except occasionally confuse people.