Tag: Demonetisation and the Black Economy

By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Demonetisation and the Black Economy; Author: Arun Kumar; Publisher: Penguin Portfolio; Price: Rs. 499; Pages: 300 Reams of paper have been inked and gigabytes of data published online lauding, berating, reporting and analysing in breathless fashion the impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's controversial decision on November 8, 2016, to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. So what makes this book on the contentious subject by Arun Kumar, a former economics professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, relevant a little over a year after the major decision? In...