An unplanned economy is an economy where economic decisions regarding production, investment and resource allocation are not linked together through conscious economic planning. This may refer to subsistence-level economies, systems of barter or to more complex arrangements such as market economies, and hypothetical systems such as self-managed, distributed and network economies. Note that there may be a significant amount of planning within firms in market and mixed-market economies.

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• Economic planning
• Economic system
• Gift economy
• Hunter-gatherer economy
• Market economy
• Mixed economy
• Self-managed economy