Economese–or the Misplaced Nominative

Mainstream capitalist economics has become, among other things, a language. I do not mean simply that economists employ a professional jargon. How could they not? Between Economese and ordinary English there are more than differences of vocabulary; there are different relations between subject, verb, and object … and so on. New Yorkers and Carolinians, say, speak two dialects of the same language. A New Yorker says, “Give me a lift downtown, will you?” A Carolinian says, ...