This book is a compilation of my pre-dissertation work towards my Ph.D. in finance at Walden University. The book is broken into breath, depth and application components to convey a overall theme. For example, to convey the developmental economics theme chapters 1 through 3 cover developmental economics. These three components makeup a Knowledge Assessment Model (KAM) during my Ph.D. studies. For scholarly researchers I highly recommend continuing your studies using a breath, depth and application approach.

This book is intended for individuals with a deep interest in economics and finance coming from a graduate level background. The research presented in this book can be applied in either a academic setting or a applied environment. The main goal is to convey that there are complex dynamics in economics and finance which contain reflexive principles. These system, due to there reflexive nature, are hard to predict. It is the hope of this author to provide insight in complex system thinking and the idea of economic emergence and chaos theory.