# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ravi-batra
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:24:09.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ravi-batra"
name: "Ravi Batra"
slug: "ravi-batra"
description: "Raveendra Nath \"Ravi\" Batra is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University. Batra is the author of six bestselling books, two of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with one reaching No. 1 in late 1987. His books center on his idea that financial capitalism breeds excessive inequality and political corruption, which inevitably succumbs to financial crisis and economic depression.\nIn his works, Batra proposes an equitable distribution system known as Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT) as a means to not only ensure material welfare but also to secure the ability of all to develop a full personality."
tagline: "Indian-American economist, author, and professor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.889634666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ravibatra.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batra%2C_Ravi"
    title: "Batra, Ravi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%89_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "راڤى باترا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Batra"
    title: "Ravi Batra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Batra"
    title: "Ravi Batra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Batra"
    title: "Ravi Batra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%93%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9"
    title: "ラビ・バトラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Batra"
    title: "Ravi Batra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8"
    title: "Батра, Рави"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "روی بترا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1969926"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump