{
  "id": "economic-nationalism.firms",
  "term": "economic nationalism",
  "sense": "firms",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 19,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "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.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "company.economic",
      "jobs.employment",
      "money.economic",
      "government.administrative",
      "power.over",
      "reach.action",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "read.information",
      "use.application",
      "make.verb",
      "wide.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "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.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "the economy given a group edge",
      "trade walls read as the group's walls"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The US Buy American Act of 1933 required federal agencies to prefer domestic goods when purchasing.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "buy-local.firms",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "buy local draws the edge by members' choices; economic nationalism by government power"
    },
    {
      "id": "self-sufficient.autarkic",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "self sufficiency needs nothing from outside; economic nationalism still trades, on terms it sets"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "economic nationalism",
    "economic nationalist",
    "economic nationalists",
    "protect our jobs",
    "protecting our jobs"
  ],
  "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-nationalism.firms"
}