Contiene: The economic environment. Interest and annuity relationships. Depreciation and valuation. Capital financing and budgeting. Selection among designs, materials, and methods. Value analysis. Solutions by linear programming. Critica-path economy. Basic patterns for making economy studies. Basic investment-decision studies. Risk, uncertainty, and sensitivity. Selections between alternatives. Fixed, increment, and sunk costs. Effects of income taxes in economy studies. Replacement studies. Minimum-cost and break-even studies. Economy studies of public projects. Economy studies in public utilities.