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Jagdish Bhagwati (born 1934) is a prominent
economics|economist noted for his defense of free
trade against the critics of globalization.  He a
University Professor of Economics at Columbia
University.

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.http://www.cfr.org/bio.php?id=1753

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.

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. 

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."

In May, 2004, Bhagwati was one of the experts who
took part in the Copenhagen Consensus project.

Bhagwati is married to Padma Desai, the Gladys and
Ronald Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic
Systems at Columbia University. They have one
daughter.

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

==Sources==
*This article uses material from the Disinfopedia
article on
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Jagdi
sh_Bhagwati Jagdish Bhagwati
*Council on Foreign Relations,
http://www.cfr.org/bio.php?id=1753 Jagdish N.
Bhagwati Andre Meyer Senior Fellow in
International Economics, undated, accessed April
2004.
*http://www.columbia.edu/~jb38/ Homepage of
Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University
website, accessed March 2004.
*http://www.aei.brookings.org/publications/abstrac
t.php?pid=81 Abstract of Amici Curiae briefing to
Supreme Court, Brookings Institute website,
accessed March 2004.

*http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/98/9.24.98/
debate.html Bhyagwati/Nader Debate September 24,
1998

==See Also==
*Anti-Globalization
*G7 Welcoming Committee
*Ward Churchill
*Noam Chomsky