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Jagdish Bhagwati
International Affairs Building, Room 1114
University Professor, Economics, Law, and International Affairs
Phone: 212-854-6297
jb38@columbia.edu
Biography:
Bhagwati, a member of the Columbia faculty since 1980, is a university professor, the highest academic title at Columbia. He is also a Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
A prolific researcher, Bhagwati has published several scientific papers, while writing extensively in leading newspapers and magazines as well. Widely regarded as the preeminent international trade economist today, Bhagwati has also made contributions to public finance, immigration, and the new theory of political economy. His works include Protectionism (MIT Press 1988), A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration and Democracy (MIT 1998), and his In Defense of Globalization (Oxford, 2004; reprinted with an afterword in 2009), acclaimed internationally and translated into 16 languages. His book, India: Planning for Industrialization (Oxford 1970), coauthored with his wife, Padma Desai, who holds the Gladys and Roland Harriman Chair at Columbia in the economics department and is the leading scholar today on Russia, is widely regarded as having provided the intellectual case for the economic reforms now under way in India.
He has received several awards, including the Freedom Prize (Switzerland), Thomas Schelling Award (Kennedy School at Harvard), the Bernhard Harms Prize (Germany), and the Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy (USA). He has been uniquely honored with six festschrifts by his many eminent pupils (including Paul Krugman) and scholars worldwide. He has also received several honorary degrees, including from London School of Economics, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the Free University in Berlin.