Comments and Reviews on Dr Ravi Batra's work.

"When it comes to the bottom line so beloved of economists, one can learn a lot about events by thinking about them in cyclical regularities, of which Batra gives a novel and brilliant exposition." 

Lester C. Thurow

"Ravi Batra has made an outstanding reputation in the United States as an international economic theorists in the best Western tradition." 

Leonard Silk, New York Times

"The forecasting record of this widely respected Southern Methodist University economist has won glowing praise from many pragmatic investment masters." 

"Dr. Batra writes about his subject as clearly as if he were telling bedtime stories."

 Christopher Lehmann Haupt, New York Times

"Scary, provocative. The good professor has a formidable academic reputation and, from what I know, his forecasting record is impressive."

"Batra [is] a scholar who has earned a considerable reputation as an expert on trade." 

"His predictions in the early 1980s of low inflation, falling oil prices and a wave of mergers–mocked for years–have proved close to the mark."

"Ravi Batra was used to making tumultuous global forecasts and having nobody listen–then predictions started to come true." 

"So far Dr. Batra is close to five for five. Pray he doesn't go six for six." 

Eric Leven, People

In a 1998 article published in Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Dr. Raj Bhalla, a Harvard educated law professor at George Washington University, writes: "This point is suggested by Ravi Batra in his widely-read and controversial book, The Myth of Free Trade, which has influenced nationally-known politicians and presidential aspirants such as television journalist Patrick Buchanan." Similalrly, in a 1996 review published in Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Dr. Kirk Kennedy, a law clerk at US Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas, writes: "The Myth of Free Trade is an ambitious challenge to the proponents of liberal international trade…Yet, it is Batra’s willingness to defy the conventions of neoclassical economics that makes the Myth of Free Trade interesting, if not theoretically sound."

In November 18, 1996 issue of Barron’s, John Liscio, a financial consultant, reviewing The Great American Deception, writes: "Batra has set the standard for economic analysis in the Nineties. Think about it: Before Batra, who ever heard of phrases like "jobless recovery," "contained depression" and ‘deflationary boom’?" 

To be sure, few writers and reviewers agree with Batra’s views. Most of them are highly critical and sarcastic, but that is only to be expected when someone offers a challenge to hundreds of years of conventional wisdom accepted in America and indeed the whole world. As Kirk Kennedy, a critic, puts it: "The Myth of Free Trade should be required reading for the advocates of free trade. To the extent that Professor Batra enables us to better understand the arguments proffered by the champions of 'new protectionism'."