The New Golden Age
The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos

Name: The New Golden Age
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Ravi Batra
ISBN: 9781481581684

Author: Ravi Batra

Narrator: Brian Emerson

Unabridged: 10 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics

Synopsis

In this groundbreaking treatise, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to world economic prosperity and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made his book The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism an international bestseller, Batra takes on falling minimum wages, corporate scandals, rocketing oil prices, and many of the other crises facing the world economy. He offers an expansive, optimistic vision of how the international community can address them and bring about something historically unprecedented: true global economic prosperity.

About Ravi Batra

Ravi Batra is the author of six international bestsellers, two of which were New York Times bestsellers. He has appeared on NBC, CNN, ABC, and CNBC and has been profiled in the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and many others. He is a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

About Brian Emerson

Brian Emerson is an actor and technical director with a long career in the Washington, DC, and Baltimore areas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

There are many similarities in the social cycle to those I saw in The Fourth Turning, by William Strauss. The accuracy of many of Batra's predictions is stunning. Written in 2007, he was spot on with the housing bubble. Just as the Fourth Turning predicts an event or series of events comparable to t......more

Goodreads review by Jan

Excellent book. Examines social & economic cycles and their impact on society (from an economic justice standpoint. He analyzes their historical applicability across cultures and societies. In particular he explains how almost all of the economic injustices today are caused by the predictable and cor......more

Goodreads review by Mary

Batra is an economic theorist that believes there is a cyclical nature to Social, Political, and Economic challenges. He believes there is an age of Warriors, Intellectuals, Acquisitors and Laborers. The US is ending it's Age of Acquisition and he predicts a Social Revolution that will overthrow Cor......more

Goodreads review by Mike

After reading Greenspan's Fraud, this is a fitting conclusion. One of the most thought provoking books about the current state of our economy that I have read. Batra makes some compelling points that seem to be dead on when it comes to where we are, and where we are going. The best part is that he sug......more

Quotes

“The analysis is keen and provocative, and the conclusions unorthodox as ever.” Publishers Weekly

“Dr. Batra vividly portrays the way in which public disgust for corruption, both corporate and federal, is becoming a serious force for political change.” Dr. W. Curtiss Priest, Director, Center for Information, Technology, & Society, MIT