Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a rigorously systems-based and natural-law framework explaining why monetary valuation and stock ownership valuation function as necessary coordination tools yet become illusory when detached from real system health. Integrating cybernetics, complexity theory, thermodynamics, behavioral finance, and governance theory, it demonstrates that financial bubbles and crises are not anomalies but predictable homeostatic corrections to accumulated imbalance. The paper positions symbolic valuation as an epistemic instrument whose validity depends on fidelity to natural constraints, system integrity, and feedback accuracy. The framework is non-ideological, falsifiable, and applicable across economic, ecological, and institutional domains.