another -ista coinage

[Michael Newman]

I haven't seen Krugman use this term before, and I doubt anyone else has (though of course I don't know that). In any case, I think he's doing his best to make -ista more productive. The question is did he avoid -ist because of the other meanings of structuralist? Or is it taking on a a specific meaning? see inflationista but not austerianista, which is actual austerian.

So what’s with the obsessive push to declare our problems “structural”? And, yes, I mean obsessive. Economists have been debating this issue for several years, and the structuralistas won’t take no for an answer, no matter how much contrary evidence is presented.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/opinion/krugman-easy-useless-economics.html?_r=1&ref=opinion 



Michael Newman
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Queens College/CUNY
michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu

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