Ravi Batra

Ravi Batra

Dr. Ravi Batra, a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, is the author of five international best sellers. He was the chairperson of his department from 1977 to 1980. In October 1978, because of dozens of publications in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, among others, Batra was ranked third in a group of “superstar economists,” selected from all the American and Canadian universities by an article in the learned journal, Economic Enquiry. In 1990, the Italian prime minister awarded him a Medal of the Italian Senate for writing a book that correctly predicted the downfall of Soviet communism, fifteen years before it happened.

Dr. Batra has been written up in major newspapers and magazines, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, the U.S. News and World Report, and appeared on all major networks including CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, CNBC, among others. In 2009, Batra received the Pratina and Navin Doshi Award for his contributions to economic analysis.

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Ravi Batra joins Jim Blasingame to propose that one way to fix the economy and income inequality is to break up the big firms.
Ravi Batra joins Jim Blasingame to report on the crisis Greece has created for itself and the European Union, and what implications this situation poses for America.