{
  "id": "engine-of-growth.driver",
  "term": "engine of growth",
  "sense": "driver",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 16,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A part a collective self reads as what makes its whole window wider, so keeping that part reads as keeping its future.",
  "folk_gloss": "a sector, region or activity that drives an economy's growth",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "read.information",
      "make.verb",
      "whole.complete",
      "window.range",
      "wide.spatial",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "future.temporal",
      "self-model.reflexive",
      "dependence.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "The self model compresses a many-part widening into one cause; the part so named is then read as holding the group's future, so maintenance and walls are set around it first.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "the whole's trajectory read through one part",
      "a part whose upkeep reads as upkeep of the future",
      "a dependence the self chooses to name"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "rising-power.upward",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "rising power reads the whole self widening; this names the part the widening is read from"
    },
    {
      "id": "dependence.condition",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "dependence is the configuration; this is the story that names and values it"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "engine of growth",
    "engines of growth",
    "growth engine",
    "growth engines"
  ],
  "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-engine-of-growth.driver"
}