In this Smart Talk video series, Andrew Mazzone and Dr. Ravi Batra discuss how to end unemployment.
Mr. Mazzone starts of the discussion with some points about the WWII since from 1945 to 1970 the world came out of the destruction from the war, the US was a power house with outstanding manufacturing and string unions. This was was a golden period for the US and then it went downhill. Andrew Mazzone and Dr. Batra start this discussion about what happened during the years from 1945 to to 1970, Reagan tax cuts and the current state of unemployment.
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. Batra’s latest book is: The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos.