Jagdish Bhagwati

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Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati (born July 26, 1934 in Bombay ) is an American economist of Indian origin. He is currently Professor of Politics and Economics at Columbia University .

biography

Jagdish Bhagwati graduated from St John's College with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1956 . He received his doctorate in 1967 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1968 to 1980 Bhagwati was an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1971 Bhagwati founded the Journal of International Economics , and in 1989 also the journal Economics & Politics .

From 1991 to 1993 he was economic policy advisor to the director general of the GATT . In 2000 he became advisor to the United Nations on globalization issues and in 2001 advisor to the Director General of the WTO . He was also a signatory to the American Enterprise Institute's campaign in 2000 against, in their opinion too many, regulations by the US Environmental Protection Agency .

In January 2004 Bhagwati published In Defense of Globalization ( In Defense of Globalization ). In this book he argues that the globalization process has a human face and that it is necessary to present this face in a more acceptable manner in public. In business circles he was particularly praised for what they consider humorous counter-arguments against points of criticism often used by globalization critics. Bhagwati believes that globalization is being blamed by many critics for things for which they are not at fault.

In May 2004 Bhagwati was a participant in the Copenhagen Consensus . He currently serves on the Academic Advisory Boards of Human Rights Watch (Asia) and the Center for Civil Society . He is also a member of the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations .

family

Bhagwati is married to Padma Desai. Jagdish Bhagwati's brother, Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati , is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India and Bhagwati's niece, Pallavi Shroff, is the manager of a major law firm in India.

Honors, prizes and memberships (selection)

Works

  • Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya: Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries (2013), ISBN 978-1-61039-271-6 .
  • Jagdish N. Bhagwati: Termites in the Trading System (2008) ISBN 978-0-19-533165-3
  • Jagdish N. Bhagwati: In Defense of Globalization (2004) ISBN 0-19-517025-3
  • Jagdish N. Bhagwati: The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization (2002) ISBN 0-262-52327-2
  • Jagdish N. Bhagwati: Regional Trade Agreements in the GATT / WTO: Article XXIV and the Internal Trade Requirement ISBN 90-6704-139-4
  • Jagdish N. Bhagwati / Robert E. Hudec (Eds.): Fair Trade and Harmonization, Vol. 1: Economic Analysis (1996) ISBN 0-262-02401-2
  • Jagdish N. Bhagwati: Trade in Services and the Multilateral Trade Negotiations , in: World Bank Economic Review Volume 1, Number 4, Vol. 1, No. 4: 549-569 (1987)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Harms Prize. (No longer available online.) Ifw-kiel.de , archived from the original on June 14, 2013 ; Retrieved June 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifw-kiel.de
  2. ↑ Member History: Jagdish N. Bhagwati. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 2, 2018 (with a short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Bhagwati, Jagdish
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bhagwati, Jagdish Natwarlal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay