Economics and Finance

Metaphors from markets, money, trade, debt, investment, and economic systems.

Entries (53)

• Apex Predator metaphor
• Beachhead Strategy metaphor
• Brand metaphor
• Business Ecosystem metaphor
• Capital metaphor
• Carrying Capacity metaphor
• Comparing And Seeking Is Shopping metaphor
• Competitive Exclusion mental-model
• Cornucopia metaphor
• Dead Zone metaphor
• Decoy Effect mental-model
• Diminishing Returns mental-model
• Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket metaphor
• Dragon Hoard metaphor
• Ecological Footprint metaphor
• Ecological Niche metaphor
• Ecosystem metaphor
• Faustian Bargain metaphor
• First-Mover Advantage mental-model
• Free Rider Problem mental-model
• Goodhart's Law mental-model
• Hedging Your Bets metaphor
• Ideas Are Commodities metaphor
• Ideas Are Money metaphor
• Ideas Are Resources metaphor
• Inflation Is an Entity metaphor
• Jevons Paradox mental-model
• Labor Is a Resource metaphor
• Let the Buyer Beware mental-model
• Midas Touch metaphor
• Mutualism mental-model
• Natural Capital paradigm
• Never Do What the Enemy Wishes mental-model
• No One Gives What They Do Not Have mental-model
• Pioneer Species metaphor
• Predator-Prey mental-model
• Prosperity Is Plant Growth metaphor
• Pyrrhic Victory metaphor
• Salary metaphor
• Sowing Seeds metaphor
• Space Colonization Is Business Expansion metaphor
• Spice Is Scarce Enabling Resource metaphor
• Stock metaphor
• Stone Soup metaphor
• Stretch It metaphor
• Sunk Cost Fallacy mental-model
• Supreme Art Is to Subdue Without Fighting mental-model
• Technical Bankruptcy metaphor
• Technical Debt metaphor
• Time Is Money metaphor
• Trade Is Slaughter metaphor
• Tragedy of the Commons paradigm
• White Elephant metaphor