Economic Development And Planning / R,K Gupta, A.K Sharma.

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

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.