Jagdish Bhagwati (born 1934) is a prominent economist noted for his defense of free trade against the critics of globalization. He is a University Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Jump to: navigation, search 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Supply and demand The supply and demand model describes how prices vary as a result of a balance between product availability and demand. ... Free trade is an economic concept referring to the selling of products between countries without tariffs or other trade barriers. ... Jump to: navigation, search Globalization (or globalisation) is a modern term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that result from dramatically increased international trade and cultural exchange. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ...

Bhagwati has previously served as an external advisor to the Director General of the World Trade Organization in 2001, as a special policy advisor on globalization to the United Nations in 2000, and as an economics policy advisor to the Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade from 1991 to 1993. From 1968 until 1980, Bhagwati was an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] WTO Logo The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization which oversees a large number of agreements defining the rules of trade between its member states (WTO, 2004a). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Jump to: navigation, search The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ... General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (usually abbreviated GATT) functions as the foundation of the WTO trading system, and remains in force, although the 1995 Agreement contains an updated version of it to replace the original 1947 one. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a widely renowned leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ...

Bhagwati currently serves on the Academic Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch (Asia) and on the board of scholars of the Centre for Civil Society. He is a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization based in New York City, USA, that conducts advocacy and research on human rights issues. ... The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a think tank which describes itself as dedicated to increasing Americas understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. ...

In 2000, Bhagwati was signatory to an amicus briefing, coordinated by the American Enterprise Institute, with Supreme Court to contend that the Environmental Protection Agency should, contrary to a prior ruling, be allowed to take into account the costs of regulations when setting environmental standards. Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ... The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a think tank founded in 1943 whose stated mission is to support the foundations of freedom - limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense. ... EPA redirects here. ...

In January, 2004, Bhagwati published In Defense of Globalization, a book in which he argues "this process [of globalization] has a human face, but we need to make that face more agreeable." January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In May, 2004, Bhagwati was one of the experts who took part in the Copenhagen Consensus project. This article is about the month of May. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Copenhagen Consensus is a Danish project which seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics. ...

Prominent Family

Bhagwati is married to Padma Desai, the Gladys and Ronald Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems at Columbia University. They have one daughter. His elder brother Justice P.N Bhagwati is a former Chief Justice of India and his niece Pallavi Shroff heads one of India's largest law firms.

Related Books

• Jagdish Bhagwati (2004) In Defense of Globalization, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195170253
• Jagdish Bhagwati (2002) The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization, MIT Press. ISBN 0262523272
• James H. Mathis, Jagdish Bhagwati (Foreword) (2002) Regional Trade Agreements in the GATT/WTO: Article XXIV and the Internal Trade Requirement, Norwell/TMC Asser Press. ISBN 9067041394
• Jagdish N. Bhagwati (Editor), Robert E. Hudec (Editor) (1996) Fair Trade and Harmonization, Vol. 1: Economic Analysis, MIT Press. ISBN 0262024012

Sources

• This article uses material from the Disinfopedia article on Jagdish Bhagwati
• Council on Foreign Relations, Jagdish N. Bhagwati Andre Meyer Senior Fellow in International Economics, undated, accessed April 2004.
• Homepage of Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University website, accessed March 2004.
• Abstract of Amici Curiae briefing to Supreme Court, Brookings Institute website, accessed March 2004.

• Bhyagwati/Nader Debate September 24, 1998

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See Also

• Anti-Globalization
• G7 Welcoming Committee
• Ward Churchill
• Noam Chomsky