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The most common allocation mechanisms include centralised mechanisms as in communism and corporations, or market based mechanisms as in capitalism.

Alternative allocation mechanisms, which could incorporate non-monetary values by the means of rational, informed debate and decision makingDecision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. Common examples include shopping, deciding what to eat, and deciding who or what to vote for in an election or referendum. Decision making is said t, and could be both decentralised and participatory, and could involve localised positive and negative feedback loops where groups of people active in their roles of either producers or consumers would make general proposals regarding production or consumption respectively. In the participatory economicsParticipatory economics or parecon a participatory economics system proposed as an alternative to other systems such as capitalism and coordinatorism, emerged from the work of the radical theorist Michael Albert and of the radical economist Robin Hahnel, model, the positive and negative feedback are provided by a third group of people which would iterate between the proposals of the producers' and consumers' groups. Other alternative allocation mechanisms most likely exist, since the parameter space has a large number of dimensions.