Technocracy dominates governmental policy making on multiple fronts. One is the historical convention of economists advising people who govern. Th e other is epistemic, a form whereby these economists frame economics— including the economic arguments they themselves posited— as having achieved a standpoint above class interests or partisanship. Economics, economists argue, constitutes valuefree truths about capitalism— natural facts of this world rather than constructed (or at least political) positions.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 51