Economics
Roles: buyer, seller, commodity, price, market, investment, budget, exchange
The domain of markets, money, and exchange. Encompasses commodities, pricing, investment, budgeting, debt, and scarcity. One of the most prolific source domains in English — we spend time, invest attention, buy arguments, and pay compliments. The frame’s gravitational pull reflects capitalism’s reach into every corner of experience.
As Source Frame (36)
- Action Is Control Over Possessions → event-structure
- Beliefs Are Possessions → mental-experience
- Causation Is Commercial Transaction → causal-reasoning
- Causation Is Control Over An Object Relative To A Possessor → causal-reasoning
- Comparing And Seeking Is Shopping → decision-making
- Comparison of Properties Is Comparison of Possessions → intellectual-inquiry
- Competition Is Competition for Desired Objects → competition
- Compute Is a Resource → artificial-intelligence
- Creating Is Giving an Object → creative-process
- Cron Job → software-programs
- Free Rider Problem
- Harm Is Having a Harmful Possession → event-structure
- Harm Is Lacking a Needed Possession → event-structure
- Hope Is a Beneficial Possession → mental-experience
- Ideas Are Commodities → intellectual-inquiry
- Ideas Are Money → intellectual-inquiry
- Ideas Are Resources → intellectual-inquiry
- Jevons Paradox
- Labor Is a Resource → collaborative-work
- Let the Buyer Beware
- Loved One Is A Possession → love-and-relationships
- Mental Accounting → mental-experience
- Moral Accounting → ethics-and-morality
- Morality Is Accounting → ethics-and-morality
- Obligations Are Possessions → ethics-and-morality
- Reciprocity
- Responsibilities Are Possessions → social-roles
- Social Accounting → social-behavior
- Status Transactions → social-dynamics, organizational-behavior
- Technical Bankruptcy → software-programs
- Technical Debt → software-programs
- Time Is a Limited Resource → time-and-temporality
- Time Is a Resource → time-and-temporality
- Time Is Money → time-and-temporality
- Well-Being Is Wealth → mental-experience
- White Elephant → organizational-behavior
Applied To This Frame (36)
- ecology → Apex Predator
- architecture-and-building → Bankrupt
- animal-husbandry → Brand
- ecology → Business Ecosystem
- medicine → Cancer Surgery Formula
- animal-husbandry → Capital
- ecology → Carrying Capacity
- mythology → Cornucopia
- destruction → Creative Destruction
- ecology → Dead Zone
- agriculture → Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch
- agriculture → Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
- mythology → Dragon Hoard
- ecology → Ecological Footprint
- ecology → Ecological Niche
- ecology → Ecosystem
- mythology → Faustian Bargain
- seafaring → Hand Over Fist
- embodied-experience → Inflation Is an Entity
- ecology → Invasive Species
- containers → Investments Are Containers For Money
- agriculture → Make Hay While the Sun Shines
- mythology → Midas Touch
- fluid-dynamics → Money Is A Liquid
- ecology → Mutualism as Metaphor
- ecology → Natural Capital
- ecology → Parasitism as Metaphor
- ecology → Pioneer Species
- embodied-experience → Possessing Is Holding
- medicine → Prognosis as Forecast
- war → Pyrrhic Victory
- materials → Salary
- mythology → Siren
- science-fiction → Spice Is Scarce Enabling Resource
- materials → Stock
- killing → Trade Is Slaughter