Jagdish N. Bhagwati Biography

He attended Cambridge University where he graduated in 1956 with a first in economics tripos. He then studied at MIT and Oxford returning to India in 1961 as Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute and then as Professor of International Trade at the Delhi School of Economics. Bhagwati returned to MIT in 1968 leaving it twelve years later as the Ford International Professor of Economics to join Columbia. Bhagwati has also served as Economic Policy Advisor to Director-General GATT (1991-1993).
Bhagwati has published more than two hundred articles and forty volumes. Regarded as one of the foremost international trade theorists of his generation he has also made contributions to development theory and policy public finance immigration and to the new theory of political economy. Three festschrift volumes of essays in his honor have been published in the United States the UK and the Netherlands.
Five volumes of his collected essays have been published by MIT Press to date. His early books India: Planning for Industrialization (with Padma Desai 1970) and India (with T.N. Srinivasan 1975) are acknowledged to have provided the intellectual case for the economic reforms now underway in India. His recent book India in Transition: Freeing the Economy was published in 1993 by Clarendon Press Oxford. Among his books are Protectionism (1988) an international bestseller in several languages and The World Trading System at Risk (1991) both reviewed extensively in the United States and abroad.

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