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'''Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra''' (born June 27, 1943) is an [[Indian American|Indian-American]] [[economics|economist]], author, and professor at [[Southern Methodist University]]. Batra is the author of six international bestsellers, two of which appeared on [[The New York Times Best Seller list]], with one ([[The Great Depression of 1990]]) reaching #1 in late 1987. His books center around the main thesis that [[financial capitalism]] breeds excessive inequality and political corruption which inevitably succumbs to financial crisis and economic depression.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usagold.com/taylorbatracrash.html |title=The Crash of the Millennium |publisher=USA Gold |author=Jay Taylor |accessdate=2011-08-01 |year=1999}}</ref> | '''Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra''' (born June 27, 1943) is an [[Indian American|Indian-American]] [[economics|economist]], author, and professor at [[Southern Methodist University]]. Batra is the author of six international bestsellers, two of which appeared on [[The New York Times Best Seller list]], with one ([[The Great Depression of 1990]]) reaching #1 in late 1987. His books center around the main thesis that [[financial capitalism]] breeds excessive inequality and political corruption which inevitably succumbs to financial crisis and economic depression.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usagold.com/taylorbatracrash.html |title=The Crash of the Millennium |publisher=USA Gold |author=Jay Taylor |accessdate=2011-08-01 |year=1999}}</ref> |