Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment: Intensive Systems, Organizations, and Enterprises

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1 : Introduction to Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment: Cost, Value, and Competition in Information and Knowledge Intensive Systems, Organizations, and Enterprises

1.1 Introduction

1.2 A Framework for Systems Engineering and Management

1.3 Theory of the Firm

1.4 Theory of the Consumer

1.5 The Interaction of the Theories of Firms and Consumers: Microeconomic Models of Economic Activity

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

1.10 Summary

Chapter 2 : Production and the Theory of the Firm

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The Production Function

2.3 Multiproduct Firms and Multiproduct Production Functions

2.4 Classic Theory of the Firm

2.5 Imperfect Competition

2.6 Summary

Chapter 3 : The Theory of the Consumer

3.1 Introduction

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

3.6 Summary

Chapter 4 : Supply–Demand Equilibria and Microeconomic Systems Analysis and Assessment Models

4.1 Introduction

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

4.5 Microeconomic Models

4.6 Summary

Chapter 5 : Normative or Welfare Economics, Decisions and Games, and Behavioral ...