Economics has always had a difficult relationship with literature. Although early economists such as Adam Smith adopted …, economics had become professionalised into a self-contained discipline expressed in mathematical language and making little … effort to communicate with the general reader. The current paper looks at this anti-literary trend in economics and considers …

.1086/500990). Using social network analysis, they show that the Economics profession gradually evolved into a small world. Small worlds …

mainstream economics textbooks as my corpus of capitalist thinking, I isolate the jargon of these books and then track its … replaced by the language of economics. Surprisingly, however, I find that since the 1980s, the trend has reversed. Today, the … language of economics is waning, while biblical language is on the rise. Is this evidence that we’ve passed the peak of …