ECO.Preface:1 - Problem frame - Make an economically workable contribution

Economic reasoning asks how different plans, knowledge, purposes and rights can be connected with scarce means. A technically feasible construction can remain unavailable because its inputs cannot be obtained, its participants will not accept the terms or its effects undermine the arrangement on which it depends.

This framework serves engineers, entrepreneurs, managers, institution designers and advisers confronting those difficulties. It supplies methods for calculation, exchange, commitments, adaptation, shared resources and economic rules. It also helps inspect what happens after an efficiency improvement changes the range or volume of feasible activity.

A practitioner needs enough knowledge of the work to recognize the intended results and the parties and resources that matter. Financial, technical, legal and statistical expertise may be supplied by others. This framework helps identify and use those contributions under their limits; it does not make them available merely by describing them.