{
  "id": "sovereign-wealth.held",
  "term": "sovereign wealth",
  "sense": "held",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 18,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Money a collective self saves and puts in markets for all its members together, making its boundary wider so the whole group reads as keeping it.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "money.economic",
      "save.preservation",
      "market.economic",
      "wealth.range",
      "put.placement",
      "member.social",
      "make.verb",
      "wide.spatial",
      "whole.complete",
      "groups.collection",
      "read.information",
      "keep.maintenance"
    ],
    "interaction": "Money that would belong to no one member is kept as the group's own and made to grow, so the collective self holds wealth the way one person would.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "wealth with a group as its only holder",
      "saving across generations of members"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, set up in 1990, invests the state's petroleum revenue in markets abroad.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "national-champion.carrier",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a national champion is a firm read as the group's; sovereign wealth is money held as the group's"
    },
    {
      "id": "tax.economic",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "tax is paid in and spent; sovereign wealth is kept and made to grow"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "sovereign wealth",
    "sovereign wealth fund",
    "sovereign wealth funds",
    "state wealth fund"
  ],
  "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-sovereign-wealth.held"
}