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Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Bhagwati

Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, regarded as one of the foremost international trade theorists of his generation, has made significant contributions to development theory and policy, public finance, immigration, and the new theory of political economy. He has published more than 300 articles and 45 volumes.

Bhagwati has written frequently for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times, and reviewed for The New Republic and the Times Literary Supplement. His writings on public policy have been published by MIT Press in two successive volumes: A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy (1998) which won the prestigious Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing; and The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization (2001), both volumes reviewed extensively in newspapers, magazines and journals worldwide. He has appeared frequently on national and international television programs, including CNN and the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour.

Professor Bhagwati has delivered many prestigious lectures, among them the Frank Graham Lecture at Princeton, the Bertil Ohlin Lectures at the Stockholm School of Economics, the Harry Johnson Lecture in London, the Eyskens Lectures in Belgium, the Radhakrishnan Lectures in Oxford, and the Prebisch Lecture at UNCTAD IX in Johannesburg.

Bhagwati was the featured speaker for ERS' Henry C. Taylor lecture in 2004.

For more information on Bhagwati, see his website.

 

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Updated date: July 19, 2005