TY - BOOK AU - Gupta R.K TI - Economic Development And Planning SN - 978-93-80833-69-9 U1 - 330 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi. PB - Global Publications. N1 - 1.Introduction 2.Political and mixed economy 3.Welfare state and economies 4.Planned economy 5.Economy of India 6.Economic freedom 7.Anarchism 8.Individualist anarchism 9.Barter system 10.Neoclassical economic theory 11.Neocolonialism 12.Communism Ideology 13.Dirigisme and feudalism 14.Georgism-Economic Philosophy 15,Economy in the caliphate 16.Liberation socialism 17.History of economic thought N2 - Economic planning refers to any directing or planning of economic activity outside the mechanisisms of the market,in an attempt to achieve specific economic or social outcomes. Planning is an economic mechanism fir resource allocation and decision-making in contrast with the market mechanism. Most economies are mixed economies, incorporating elements of market mechanisms and planning for distributing inputs and outputs. The level of centralization of decision-making ultimately depends on the type of planning mechanism employed: as such planning may be based on either centralized or decentralized decision-making ER -