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EngEco 1 - 2011 - 12-EN PDF
EngEco 1 - 2011 - 12-EN PDF
1. Introduction
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1.1 Engineering Economics and Engineers
Engineers are planners and builders. They are also problem solvers,
managers, and decision makers. Engineering economics touches each of
these activities. Plans and production must be financed. Problems are
eventually defined by dollar dimensions, and decisions are evaluated by
their monetary consequences.
Public Finance
Personal Finance
Corporate Finance
includes Project Appraisal, Investment Appraisal, Capital
Budgeting
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Differences in terminology between
corporate finance and engineering
economics
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3 key concepts in Engineering Economics
Cash flow
Time
Interest rate
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1.4 Historical facts
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Hirschleifer, J. (1958), On the Theory of the Optimal
Investment Decision, Journal of Political Economy, 66,
329-352.
*Author of a very known phrase pronounced just before the 1929 crisis:
"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau
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Progression in practice ...
computers
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The birth of personal computers
Apple ][ 1977
IBM PC 1981
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and software ...
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Harvard
Business School :
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