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A collective self that narrows its boundary to the companies, jobs and money it reads as its own, using its government's power to make their reach wider.

Economic nationalism (noun) means: A collective self that narrows its boundary to the companies, jobs and money it reads as its own, using its government's power to make their reach wider. It emerges from collective self, boundary, company, jobs: The group's edge is drawn through the economy, and the government's power over walls is used to widen the reach of what is inside and set walls on what is outside. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 19, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

economic-nationalism.firms · forms: economic nationalism, economic nationalist, economic nationalists, protect our jobs, protecting our jobs

Examples

Emergence

from: collective self boundary company jobs money government power reach narrow read use make wide
through: The group's edge is drawn through the economy, and the government's power over walls is used to widen the reach of what is inside and set walls on what is outside.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built from — 5 more not showneconomic nationalismL19economic-nationalism.firms — A collective self that narrows its boundary to the companies, jobs and money it reads as its own, using its government'scollective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.companyL9company.economic — a business of people working togetherjobsL18jobs.employment — regular role where people do work for paymoneyL16money.economic — a resource that is a property of price and workgovernmentL17government.administrative — a group that makes rules for people in a placepowerL14power.over — The reach of one thing over the walls of another thing's window.reachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.

Relations

contrasts-withbuy-local.firmsbuy local draws the edge by members' choices; economic nationalism by government power
contrasts-withself-sufficient.autarkicself sufficiency needs nothing from outside; economic nationalism still trades, on terms it sets

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md