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In this well-researched and eminently readable book, Dr. S.K. Ray articulates and analyzes, with consummate skill, the polity and economy of the underworld.
A unique feature of the book is that the opening chapter, Curtain Raiser, is written in considerable depth and dimension by A.V. Poulose, an eminent columnist and financial expert, and this lends lustre to this illuminating study. The following chapters (Chs. 2-8) explore different dimensions of the economic crimes -ranging from profiteering, black marketing, black money, smuggling to corruption, fraud and misfeasance. The next six chapters (Chs. 9-14) cover the economic aspects of inflation, inter-national indebtedness, planning and investment, and inter alia explore the impact of the parallel economy and criminalization in matters which are purely economic and frequently socio-political.
Contributions by experts in specific fields, viz. by D.R. Mehta, former Chairman of SEBI, on investment risks; by Ashutosh Kumar Banerjee on extraneous pressures; and by Shivendra Kumar on the new horizons of information techno-logy leading to cyber crimes, considerably enhance the value of the book.
In the concluding chapter - The Battle-front - the author weaves together the various threads of thoughts and suggests remedial strategies.
This book on the polity and economy of the underworld, especially in the Indian context, will be of immense benefit to policy planners, administrators, decision-makers, and all those who have an abiding interest in the economy and polity of this country.ISBN 812032577X
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Pages : 320
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