Government planners, rather than a market, allocate supplies and set prices and wages.
GlaxoSmithKline is now allocating supplies of its drug, Relenza, to areas of the United States or the world most in need of it, a spokesman for the company said.
If an era of real water scarcity dawns, as many scientists now predict it inevitably will, the ability of states and localities to allocate supplies fairly will be a telling test.
The upper-level model under the firm's consideration is to determine the optimal locations for DCs and allocate supplies to minimize the total cost, while the lower-level model is to minimize the total transportation cost of all customers.
Keenan recognizes that without a communications network to allocate supplies from central locations, relief workers cannot do their jobs.
Due to the storm's proximity to Central America, several countries were placed on alert and began allocating supplies for a potential disaster.
The Justice Department said Mr. Walker had colluded with other executives, in person and on the phone, to rig bids, fix prices and allocate supply.
But the absence of a price to allocate supply and demand makes it harder to know whether welfare is being maximised.
Money is a handy way of denominating prices and economists love prices because they are so efficient at allocating supply and demand so as to maximise welfare.
The study is focused on practices and lessons which are especially useful for regulators and policy makers that want to facilitate the financing of new desirable power plants in risky environments and also efficiently allocate supply contracts among investors at competitive prices.
Depending on how LG allocates supply among its Optimus G and Nexus devices, we could see it claw back into second, since the gap is still quite narrow, but it has to contend with Apple's holiday iPhone sales, which are generally very strong.
