ABSTRACT
This paper deals with some features of nonmarket choice processes in which economic imperialists have recently been active and in which some rather subtle but by no means unimportant threats to the quality of life have arisen which have tended to be glossed over by economists. I conjecture that the two reasons for this have been on the one hand the blindness characteristic of all proselytizers, which makes them dismiss, sometimes contemptuously, the criticisms of the uninitiated, and, on the other, the pathetic reliance of the uninitiated upon ordinary English rather than the jargon used by the imperialists (which is often the only language in which the latter can communicate).
