{
  "id": "economic-anxiety.unlocated",
  "term": "economic anxiety",
  "sense": "unlocated",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 20,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Anxiety kept across the members of a collective self about income, prices and bills: some wall on these read as near, without a reading of which.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "anxiety.unlocated",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "across.spatial",
      "member.social",
      "income.financial",
      "price.economic",
      "wall.range-end",
      "read.information",
      "near.spatial",
      "bill.payment"
    ],
    "interaction": "Each member's unlocated fear about the parameters it lives by is summed and kept at group scale, where it can be asked about and counted. Because no wall is named, the report attaches to whatever wall a story offers it.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "anxiety that can be polled",
      "a report open to more than one located cause"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Marketplace-Edison Research poll published an Economic Anxiety Index built from questions about respondents' worries over jobs, bills and savings.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "anxiety.unlocated",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "anxiety at group scale, about the parameters members live by"
    },
    {
      "id": "pocketbook-issues.felt",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "pocketbook issues name the parameters; economic anxiety is the unlocated report about them"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "economic anxieties",
    "economic anxiety",
    "economic insecurity"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-economic-anxiety.unlocated"
}