ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the functions of central and price system controls with respect to the choice and allocation processes. It also examines of the alternative controls with respect to processes for distribution, stabilization, resource development, and high resource output. Ordinarily a concern for high resource output will not initiate the displacement of hierarchy by price system or vice versa. But resource output may quite rationally be a marginal consideration —hence a decisive one —where the superiority of one technique over another is not clearly established by other criteria, such as distribution, choice, or allocation. Resource output is a marginal consideration for at least two reasons. Clearly, however, a concern for cost reduction will often call for supplementary hierarchical and polyarchal devices to improve the output, quality, or quantity of resources available to both agency and enterprise.
