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Appreciation
(1) Any effect of
environment upon capacity. (2) The occurrence of
such an effect. (3) The category of such effects.
Appreciation is one of the four factors of
wealth.
Appreciable
(Noun) Something,
such as a sound, an object, or a person, capable of
affecting the individual whose wealth is being
considered.
(Adjective) Capable
of affecting the individual whose wealth is being
considered.
Appreciate
To be affected by
environment.
Capacity
That which
separates living creatures from inanimate objects.
Capacity is one of the four factors of wealth and
signifies collectively (i) the ability to affect
(i.e., to influence) Environment and (ii) the
ability to receive the effects of (i.e., to
appreciate) Environment.
Environment
Everything but the
individual whose wealth is being considered.
Environment is one of the four factors of
wealth.
Environmental
feature
Something that is
an appreciable or an influenceable.
Influence
(Noun) (1) Any
effect of capacity upon environment. (2) The
occurrence of such an effect. (3) The category of
such effects. Influence is one of the four factors
of wealth.
(Verb) To affect
environment.
Influenceable
(Noun) Something,
such as an object or a person, capable of being
affected by the individual whose wealth is being
considered.
(Adjective) Capable
of being affected by the individual whose wealth is
being considered.
Jatalla
An instance of
imparting from one to another without loss to the
former of that which was imparted.
"Sharing information is an instance of
jatalla."
Plutonomic
Of or pertaining to
wealth or plutonomics.
"Guns,
Germs and
Steel
presents a theory that may be characterized as
plutonomic."
Plutonomics
The science or
study of wealth, wealth measurement, and wealth
management.
"He majored in plutonomics."
Plutonomy
The act, process or
practice of managing an individual's wealth.
"Effective plutonomy calls for skill, vision,
and at least a bit of self-discipline."
Usage note: Plutonomics refers to the
science of wealth management while plutonomy
refers to the practice of managing
wealth.
Precision
Bias
(1) The tendency to
believe that greater precision implies greater
accuracy. (2) The tendency to assign greater weight
to that which can be quantified than to that which
defies quantification.
Wealth
Concurrent
definition: The correlation between appreciation
and influence actually being presently enjoyed by
an individual and the appreciation and influence he
or she would choose to enjoy if put to the choice,
this correlation being further discounted or
augmented by the result of prospective wealth
analysis (below).
Prospective wealth
analysis: The likelihood that an individual will
enjoy, from the moment of measurement on, the
appreciation and influence he or she would choose
to enjoy if put to the choice.
Retrospective
wealth analysis: The correlation between actual
appreciation and influence enjoyed by an individual
during a given time span and the appreciation and
influence he or she would have preferred to have
enjoyed during the time span.
See,
generally, Plutonomics:
A Unified Theory of
Wealth
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