I would recommend two books--one old, one fairly new. The first is W.H.Hutt's ECONOMISTS AND THE PUBLIC (Jonathan Cape, 1936), especially chapter XIV "Sanctions for the Economists' Authority." The second is Michael A. Bernstein's A PERILOUS PROGRESS:ECONOMISTS AND PUBLIC PURPOSE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA (Princeton University Press, 2001). A quick summary of the main arguments is found in my review of this book in THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS 6:1 (Spring 2003), 75-79. This review should be available online at www.mises.org in the journals section. Sam Bostaph