> Economists, it seems, think about money less than most people do: as Mervyn King, the former governor of the Bank of England, observed in 2001: ‘Most economists hold conversations in which the word “money” hardly appears at all.’

Eh yeah, that's because there are other words for money. An Economist thinks about resources, their (perceived) value, and less about cash. It's because cash somehow ends up representing those points.

That doesn't mean an Economist 'thinks/talks less about money'.