# economic nationalism (firms)

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.

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [company](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-company.economic), [jobs](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-jobs.employment), [money](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic), [government](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative), [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [narrow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [use](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-use.application), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [wide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wide.spatial)

**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.

**Novel properties:**
- the economy given a group edge
- trade walls read as the group's walls

## Examples
- The US Buy American Act of 1933 required federal agencies to prefer domestic goods when purchasing. *(economics)*

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