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Economics versus the law

Pradeep Mehta's book, critiquing six judgments impacting India's economy, is a call for introspection, highlighting the consequences of overstepping by courts and the problems with the PIL process

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Supreme Court and the Indian Economy
Author:  Pradeep Mehta
Publisher: Academic Foundation
Pages: 392
Price: Rs 1,495

Intrepid, articulate and conscientious, Supreme Court and the Indian Economy brings out succinctly the loss of bureaucratic confidence, dent in investor sentiment, the constitutional overstepping by courts, and, of course, the economic loss. 

The book is a critique of six specific judgments by the Supreme Court (SC) that illustrate the tension or even friction between economics and law. The author questions the lack of economic impact assessment competence and wisdom of the SC without resorting to any vitriol by presenting the counterfactuals — a method many budding journalists could

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