Matthew Hennessey's 'Visible Hand'

In his endlessly excellent 1981 book The Economy In Mind, the late, great Warren Brookes told the story of an economist clearing customs at JFK Airport in the malaise-ridden, late 1970s. The official who took the economist’s passport asked him his profession, and upon receiving a reply questioned allowing him back into the country given the immense damage economists had done over the decades in the U.S., and around the world.