Why this word is great
CAMERALISTICS — [Noun] The science of public finance, administration, and economic policy as the unified statecraft of the treasury. From German Kameralistik, from Kameralist (a specialist in public revenue), ultimately from Latin camera ("vault, chamber, treasury"). Unlike economics, which surveys the broad social machinery of production and consumption, or accounting, which tallies discrete debits and credits, cameralistics is the arcane art of governmental husbandry, concerned with the fiscal organism of the state. It is the meticulous ledger of a salt monopoly, the draft of a mercantilist tariff, and the heavy, wax-sealed book binding a prince's ambitions to the tangible yield of his forests—the solemn machinery by which a nation is built not on glory, but on the sustainable, administered flow of coin, proving governance to be the sober art of making a realm pay for itself.