eCon 502 — Glossary
Control Axes
The degree of control centralization in a socionomic organism is represented by the fundamental eCon scales known as Economic Control Axes, or eCon Axes for short. The top level eCon Axis is therefore the eCon Axis, since it also applies to non-economic domains like political unions. For instance, democracy is a dCon phenomenon. So, the eCon Axis is also the universal Control Axis.
Control Axes are covered in eCon 102.
cCon
cCon is Centralized Control or CC. cCon pulls to the left these days: higher taxes, more regulation, less freedom. As a fundamental direction on the eCon Axis, it is explored widely in the eCon Canon.
dCon
dCon is Decentralized Control or DC. dCon pulls to the right these days: lower taxes, less regulation, more freedom. As a fundamental direction on the eCon Axis, it is explored widely in the eCon Canon.
eCon
eCon is short for Economic Control, a control theory that posits all economic policy decisions are economic control decisions. The likely results of such decisions and their resultant policies can be deciphered by understanding their proposed control mechanisms. Centralized control (cCon or CC) or decentralized control (dCon or DC), that is the question.
eCon Canon
The eCon Canon is the set of pages describing eCon theory and the natural laws of eCon. The eCon portal page links to the various pages in the eCon Canon.
eCon Factors
eCon Factors quantify how the per capita properties of socionomic electrons and nucleons vary under cCon and dCon.
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eCon Factors are explained and utilized in eCon 300.
Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence (CI) is the total IQ of a socionomic organism, whether a body politic, polity, company, or other group endeavor. Wikipedia has a full page on CI.
Effective Collective Intelligence
Effective Collective Intelligence (Effective CI or eCI) is the total CI that is available for exercise, i.e., the total CI that is unconstrained by centralized control (cCon).
GovNukes
GovNukes is a nickname for Governmental Nucleons, one of the three forms of socionomic nucleons.
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GovNukes and the other two classes of Socionomic Nucleons are more fully introduced in eCon 300.
Socionomic
Socionomic is a concatenation of social-economic that is easier to say than socioeconomic. Socionomic policies drive the rules controlling the intersection of social and economic affairs, and are enforced through various control mechanisms.
Socionomic Electrons
Electrons include individuals and families. Though families include more than one individual, they are considered electrons because they operate in society as cohesive social units. Well, families ideally operate as cohesive social units, especially while raising children. Plus, healthy families are essential to healthy social organisms.
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In practice, electrons can generally be equated to households.
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Socionomic electrons are more fully introduced in eCon 300.
Socionomic Nucleons
Nucleons are centralized power centers: governmental, business, and religious institutions, often of great power and run by people of elite intelligence. Axiomatically, centralized power centers are few in number, vastly fewer than electrons.
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Socionomic Nucleons are more fully introduced in eCon 300.