allocation of resources

Apportionment of productive assets among different uses. The issue of resource allocation arises as societies seek to balance limited resources (capital, labour, land) against the various and often unlimited wants of their members. Mechanisms of resource allocation include the price system in free-market economies and government planning, either in state-run economies or in the public sectors of mixed economies. The aim is always to allocate resources in such a way as to obtain the maximum possible output from a given combination of resources.

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Allocation may refer to:

• Computers
• Delayed allocation
• Block allocation map
• FAT
• IP address allocation
• Memory allocation
• No-write allocation
• Register allocation
• Economics
• Economic system
• Asset allocation
• Allocation of resources
• Market allocation scheme
• Tax allocation district
• Credit allocation
• Strategic planning: resource allocation
• Telecommunication
• Call-sign allocation plan
• Frequency allocation
• Type allocation code
• Operations research - the allocation of scarce resources
• Voting
• Allocation voting