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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The science of wealth: a name given by some writers to the science of political economy, or, in a more restricted sense, to that portion of the science which relates to the management and regulation of wealth and property.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

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  • noun Study of wealth

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Examples

  • What is needed is an Aristotelian buen vivir (as the World Social Forum proclaims) guided by oikonomia rather than chrematistics.

    Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009

  • Be it added, that the great philosopher had seen but one phase of the science, chrematistics, and that his ideas here bear the impress of the age in which he lived.

    System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855

  • For them, chrematistics -- what does something cost in a market -- is basically a trivial question.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Terrence McNally 2010

  • For them, chrematistics -- what does something cost in a market -- is basically a trivial question.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Terrence McNally 2010

  • For them, chrematistics -- what does something cost in a market -- is basically a trivial question.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Terrence McNally 2010

  • For them, chrematistics -- what does something cost in a market -- is basically a trivial question.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Terrence McNally 2010

  • For them, chrematistics -- what does something cost in a market -- is basically a trivial question.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Terrence McNally 2010

  • For them, chrematistics -- what does something cost in a market -- is basically a trivial question.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Terrence McNally 2010

  • For them, chrematistics -- what does something cost in a market -- is basically a trivial question.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Terrence McNally 2010

  • For them, chrematistics -- what does something cost in a market -- is basically a trivial question.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Terrence McNally 2010

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  • The study of wealth; the science of political economy.

    May 12, 2008

  • Forget all your fussy statistics

    For wealth is a game of heuristics.

    Getting more than your neighbor

    With minimum labor

    Is practicing good chrematistics.

    January 18, 2017