Why this word is great
CHREMATISTICS — [Noun] The study of wealth, specifically its acquisition and measurement as an end in itself. From Ancient Greek χρῆμα (khrêma, "money, wealth") and the suffix -istics, denoting a field of study. Unlike economics, which concerns the broad social organism of production and consumption, or plutology, a rarified and archaic synonym, chrematistics is the narrow, relentless art of accretion—the pure calculus of the ledger. It is the cold gleam of coins in a strongbox, the algorithmic pulse of a high-frequency trade, and the silent appreciation of a vacant asset; a discipline devoted to the means, indifferent to the ends, where the river is meticulously measured but never drunk from.