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"In the utilities, tax and economic regulation
cases, there are good reasons for judicial self-
restraint if not judicial deference to legislative
judgment. The legislature after all has the affirmative
responsibility. The courts
have only the power to destroy, not to reconstruct.
When these are added to the complexity of economic
regulation, the uncertainty, the liability to error,
the bewildering conflict of the experts, and the number
of times the judges have been overruled by events-self-
limitation can be seen to be the path to judicial
wisdom and institutional prestige and stability."