Attentive reinterpretation of glossaries of financial terms

Investing Attention Essential to Viable Growth (Part #10)

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The above argument suggests that the many glossaries of financial terms could well be mined as a source of metaphor indicative of the nature and possibilities of the investment of attention. Much of that terminology can otherwise be perceived as alienating, especially given its very particular focus on profit, to the exclusion of other understandings of benefit and yield, especially when the intention is purportedly "disinterested".

Potentially interesting is the presentation of those terms in a semantic map or mind map, preferably interactive (as with some presentations of periodic tables), and open to multiple interpretations. A distinction might be made between the conventional interpretation (with its extended use as a metaphor offering insight into investment in intangibles) and a more fundamental general interpretation of both from a cognitive perspective.

Of interest is the design of a systematic "mining procedure" to highlight potential equivalents of potential relevance to the investment of attention.

Glossaries: It is appropriate to note that some of the glossaries, many online (and typically copyrighted), contain thousands of terms. They include:

• Financial Times Lexicon
• Investopedia
• Reuters Financial Glossary
• Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary
• Yahoo Personal Finance Glossary
• NASDAQ Glossary of Stock Market Terms and Definitions
• Harriman Intelligence Finance Glossary
• InvestorWords
• Glossary of key financial terms ***
• Financial Glossary of moneycontrol.com
• Financial Glossary of BBC
• Financial Glossary of MoneyGlossary.com
• Glossary of Financial Terms of the Nonprofit Finance Fund
• http://www.businessballs.com/finance.htm
• http://www.moneychimp.com/glossary/

Examples of terms potentially offering particular insight with respect to investment of attention: In addition to those noted above, these might include:

capital asset capital gain/loss capital appreciation/depreciation dividends index margin account prospectus yield controlling investment

re-investment incorporation share classes capital incorporation venture capital bankruptcy buy back junk bonds

depreciation act of God accounting balance sheet credit acquisition derivative maturity blue chip

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