 Why didn’t M. Mitchell Waldrop give credit to other economists in his book?
As long ago as 1939, Sir John Hicks, one of the founders of modern economics, noted that increasing returns, if tolerated, could lead to the "wreckage" of a large part of economic theory.) 3) Pace Krugman, I also did not claim that Arthur bears principal responsibility for the rediscovery of increasing returns by economists in the 1970s and 1980s. Among the sources quoted in that piece were the then-chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (Joseph Stiglitz), a governor of the Federal Reserve Board (Laurence Meyer), and a well-known Harvard professor (Gregory Mankiw).
 He wrote about them but it was cut during the editing process.
 He didn’t know about them.  He left them out of the book deliberately.  He wrote about them but it was cut during the editing process.  This is untrue; the book includes this information.