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Last summer we contributed to a list of books that economists could have 
written.  May I offer another category for the end of this summer? 
 
Mystery books economists should/could have written.  Here are my 
nominations: 
 
Adam Smith: 
The impartial (but invisible) spectator on the trail of the invisible hand. 
 
John Stuart Mill: 
Fantastic tales of missing credit for wifely tales.* 
 
*Mill’s contemporaries and many modern critics refuse to acknowledge that 
Harriet Taylor Smith contributed to his books and thoughts, and this in 
spite of his own lavish praise of it.  This is dismissed as hopelessly 
romantic,  
nothing more. 
 
Joseph A. Schumpeter 
Of entrepreneurs and innovations: green eggs and spam. 
 
John Maynard Keynes: 
Modern economists, the clueless breed: finding real recovery? 
 
Milton Friedman 
Forgetting Pinochet* 
 
*Suggested by J. Daniel Hammond’s "Remembering Economics" in JHET, June 
2003, with apologies. 
 
Sumitra Shah 
 
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