CONTENTS
1.2 A Framework for Systems Engineering and Management
1.6 Welfare or Normative Economics
1.7 Program and Project Management Economics
1.8 Contemporary Issues Concerning Information and Information Technology Economics
1.9 Economic Pitfalls in the Engineering of Systems
Chapter 2 : Production and the Theory of the Firm
2.3 Multiproduct Firms and Multiproduct Production Functions
2.4 Classic Theory of the Firm
Chapter 3 : The Theory of the Consumer
3.2 Economic Utility Theory and Its Axioms
3.3 Properties of Utility Functions
3.4 The Fundamental Problem of the Consumer
3.5 Sensitivity and Substitution Effects
Chapter 4 : Supply–Demand Equilibria and Microeconomic Systems Analysis and Assessment Models
4.2 Basic Supply–Demand Equilibrium for a Single Good
4.3 General Supply–Demand Equilibrium Conditions
4.4 Extensions to General Equilibrium to Include Market Interdependencies
Chapter 5 : Normative or Welfare Economics, Decisions and Games, and Behavioral Economics
5.2 Pareto Optimality under Perfect Competition Conditions
5.3 External Effects and Imperfect Competition: Public Goods
5.4 External Effects and Imperfect Competition: Nonindependent Production and Consumption
5.5 Welfare Maximization and Social Choice
Chapter 6 : Cost–Benefit and Cost–Effectiveness Analyses and Assessments
6.3 Identification of Costs and Benefits
6.4 The Identification and Quantification of Effectiveness
7.1 Model-Based Parameters for Productivity
7.2 Early Models for Estimation of Costs, Including Effort and Schedule
7.3 The Constructive Cost Model
Chapter 8 : Approaches to Investment Valuation
Chapter 9 : Real Options for Investment Valuation
9.5 Investment Decision Making
Chapter 10 : Contemporary Perspectives