Building Economics

Author: Huang Rubao
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book is based on the socialist market economy, focusing on building products, building production, and the building market. It emphasizes the research and elaboration of the objective economic laws governing the operation and development of the building economy. The book is divided into five chapters, covering the main content of: the economic attributes, economic life, value forms, price characteristics and forms, circulation, and consumption of building products; the rational allocation of building production factors, labor productivity, capital productivity, marginal productivity, production functions and their roles, technological progress and industrialization and socialization in building production, the characteristics of design work, and economic issues in maintenance; the characteristics of the building market, demand and supply, types, changes in supply-demand relationships, the mechanisms of tendering and bidding, and subcontracting and contracting methods. This book can serve as a textbook or reference for postgraduate and undergraduate students majoring in engineering management in higher education institutions, or as a selective course textbook for architecture, civil engineering, and other related fields. It can also be used as a reference for building economy researchers and management personnel at various levels in the construction industry.