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Engineering is a great applied science that studies how to make solutions to practial, scientific problems. While engineering deals with how to solve these problems, economics is the complementary science of how to optimise these solutions. Economics analyses production mathematically and statistically. For engineering, microeconomics is the invaluable tool to determine optimisation with given resource constraints (mostly by Lagrangian multi-variate methods). Game theory analysis can help determine incentive structures engineering systems should take to make proper human actions. The best use of economics in engineering is to apply these solutions to different engineering solutions in order to achieve Pareto efficiency, or economic, efficiency (ironically, Pareto was an engineer himself). The best solutions in engineering are not always the best-designed or the ones of highest quality but also the ones which are cost-effective and effiicent given constraints. Economics can master these concepts.

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