TCA Srinivasaraghavan tries to take a potshot at economists calling economists and low esteem as opposite polls while he esteems himself highly (the American publisher sending him a copy of Clinton's book). The main reason why the economists avoid biographies is because they expect their work to speak for them.
One obvious reason that comes to my mind is that almost all the economists have to explain why their predictions had not come true. The world of finance and international business rarely works according to the rules of economics. In spite of that the economists keep on putting out prophetic theories. Finally, on seeing that they had blundered they prefer to keep quiet rather than explain again what went wrong, where and how.
