plutologyn.
/pluːˈtɒlədʒi/, U.S. /pluˈtɑlədʒi/ The science of the production and distribution of wealth. Cf. plutonomy n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy
political economya1687
economics1764
Pol. Econ.1796
cameralistics1831
catallactic1831
chrematistics1842
plutonomy1851
plutology1864
1864 W. E. Hearn (title) Plutology; or the theory of the efforts to satisfy human wants.
1893 Athenæum 1 Apr. 405/2 This ignorant peasant did not act up to certain well-ascertained laws of the ‘science of wealth’. Plutology is not everything.
1951 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 11 98 Economic history, then, concerns itself with plutology—the science of wealth—rather than with economics proper.
1992 National Rev. 27 Apr. 32 For Hayek, economics is not a scheme of wealth creation, or plutology.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > one who studies or writes about
economist1776
political economist1787
chrematist1845
politico-economist1847
plutonomist1851
plutologist1874
financial modeller1974
1874 H. Sidgwick Methods of Ethics v. 261 As the plutologists say.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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