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===Engineering=== Following Samuel Haber,<ref>Haber, Samuel. ''Efficiency and Uplift'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.</ref> Donald Stabile argues that engineers were faced with a conflict between physical efficiency and [[cost efficiency]] in the new corporate capitalist enterprises of the late nineteenth-century [[United States]]. Because of their perceptions of market demand, the profit-conscious, non-technical managers of firms where the engineers work often impose limits on the projects that engineers desire to undertake. The prices of all inputs vary with market forces, thereby upsetting the engineer's careful calculations. As a result, the engineer loses control over projects and must continually revise plans. To maintain control over projects, the engineer must attempt to control these outside variables and transform them into constant factors.<ref>{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1986.tb01899.x|title = Veblen and the Political Economy of the Engineer|journal = American Journal of Economics and Sociology|volume = 45|issue=1|pages = 41β52|year = 1986|last1 = Stabile|first1 = Donald R.}}</ref>
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