Co-Evolution of Symbolic Species in the Financial Market: A Framework for Economic and Political Decision-Making

Acknowledgement
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introductory Concepts
	Causality and Intelligibility
		Causality
		Intelligibility
		Theories
	Growth-Development-Evolution
		Growth
			Definition and Characteristics
			Logic of Growth Modelling
		Development
		Evolution
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: Co-evolution in the Financial Market
	The Concept of Evolution—General Framework
		Theoretical Basis of Evolution
			Genotype
			Genetic Mutation
			Genetic Recombination
			Phenotype
			Directional Selection
			The Concept of Mechanism
			The Concept of Mechanism of Evolution
	The Concept of Co-evolution
		Theoretical Basis of Co-evolution
			Species and Co-species
			Co-species: Ontological or Gnoseological Concept?
			Co-species versus Environment
		The Concept of Co-evolution
			Definitional Considerations
			The Mechanism of Co-evolution
		The Concept of Evolution in the Financial Market
			Genotype and Mutation on the Financial Market
				Additional Discussion
			Phenotype on the Financial Market
				The Concept of Phenotype on the Financial Market
				Is There Phenotype Development in the Financial Market?
			Selection in the Financial Market
			The Mechanism of Evolution in the Financial Market
				Additional Discussion
		The Co-evolution in the Financial Market
			Co-species in the Financial Market
				Preamble
				The Concept of Co-species in the Financial Market
			Circular Causality in the Financial Market
		The Mechanism of Co-evolution in the Financial Market
			Genetic Co-evolution
				Endogenous Mutations
				Exogeneous Mutations
			Memetic Co-evolution
			Semetic Co-evolution
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Binomial Co-evolution in the Financial Market—Preparing Issues
	Introduction
		General Framework
			The Bright Cone
			Observational Competence
		Observational Variables in the Financial Market
			Informational Observables ()
			Behavioural Observables ()
			Analytical Developments on Observables
			Short Discussion
	Decisional Variables in the Financial Market
		The Concept of Decisional Variable—Visiting the Rational Expectations Issue
		The Concept of Decisional Variable—Visiting the Adaptive Expectations Issue
			The Predicates of Decisional Variables
			Defining of the Decisional Variable
			A Typology of Decisional Variable
			Short Additional Discussion
		Functioning of the Decisional Variable
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Binomial Co-evolution in the Financial Market—Mechanisms
	Information and Price as Symbolic Species
		Symbolic Species
			The Concept of Symbolic Species
				Short Discussion
		Some Analytical Developments
			Preamble
			(α) On the Structure of Price
			(β) Price as Symbolic Species
		Co-evolutive Mechanism of the Binomial Information-Price
			Preamble
			Logical Description
				Objectives
				Additional discussion
				Logical Model of BIP
	Notes
	Annex: Systematics of the Binomial Information-Price
	References
Chapter 5: Preference as Symbolic Species
	Preamble
		Preference as a Symbolic Species in the Financial Market
			The Logical Structure of Preference
				Proference.
				Short Discussion.
				A Proposal for the Structure of Preference.
				Short Discussion.
				Comment.
				Additional Comment.
				A More Analytical Discussion.
				Additional Comments.
			Preference as Symbolic Species
				Short Discussion.
				Comment.
				Short Discussion.
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Trinomial Co-evolution in the Financial Market
	Logical Modelling of the Trinomial Preference-Information-Price
		Preamble
			Reaction Norms in the Trinomial Model
				Short Discussion
				Important Remarks:
			Synergy in the Trinomial Model
				Generalities
				Short discussion
				The Concept of Synergy
				A Taxonomy of Synergy
				The Structure of Synergic Mechanism
				Some Developments Around the Concept of Synergy.
				Short Discussion
		A General Evolutionist Picture of the (Co-) Species Preference-Information-Price
		The Logical Model of the Trinomial Preference-Information-Price
			Elements of Modelling
			A Sketch of the Model
			Some Polemical Issues in the Trinomial Preference-Information-Price
		Quantitative Formalization in the Trinomial Preference-Information-Price
			Preamble
			Forming/Choosing/Adjusting of the Trading Strategy
				Notations
			Relations of Definition, Calculus and Decision
			The Quantitative Model
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Co-evolution of Symbolic Species and Decision-Making in the Financial Market
	Preliminaries
	What Should be Expected from a General Framework of Co-evolutionary Financial Market
		Seven Epistemological Issues
		Decision-Making Framework
	Notes
	References
Glossary
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 6
Index