The Relation to Preceding Concepts and Models

The interrelation of this application to economics with the general concepts formulated in preceding chapters should, however, first be made obvious to the systematic reader  

1) the substantial aspect to be considered has changed from political opinions to investment behaviour in the economy, 

2) the population concerned has changed from the large group of people having political opinions to the small group of entrepreneurs in a position to make investment decisions, 

3) the economic decisions made are directly connected with material variables, namely with the investment structure index to be introduced in Sect. 5.2.1, 

4) the trend parameters are now treated - in contrast to Chap. 2 - as dynamic variables obeying certain equations of motion (see, for example, the equation of motion for the investors propensities in Sect. 5.3.2). Hence, the investors interaction model will provide a first example for the general problem of the dynamics of trend parameters coupled to the dynamics of the socioconfiguration, as already discussed in Sect. 3.3. 

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