Supply-Chain Shortage or Merely Central Planning?

 John Tamny says Central planning:

The supply lines of February 2020 were impossibly complicated structures that no politician could ever hope to design. Think billions of individuals around the world pursuing their narrow work specialization on the way to enormous global plenty. Put another way, the shelves in economically free countries were heaving with all manner of products based on economic cooperation that was staggering in scope. Brilliant as some experts claim to be, and brilliant as some politicians think they are as they look in the mirror, they could never construct the web of trillions of economic relationships that prevailed before the lockdowns. But they could destroy the web. And they did; that, or they severely impaired it.

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If you are interested in a thorough theoretical critique of a variety of forms of central planning, I recommend Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism.