Professor Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Papers, Articles & Letters
- Columbia University
- Economics Department
- 828 International Affairs Building, MC 3308
- 420 West 118th Street
- New York, NY 10027
- Email: [email protected]
Listed by Year
-           "War on Black Money," Times of India Jagdish Bhagwati with Pravin Krishna and Suresh Sundaresan, Dec. 13
-           "Protectionist Fallacies" A working paper with Pravin Krishna, October 20, 2016.
- "PM's pledges can't be implemented in a year" Times of India, Jagdish Bhagwati & Pravin Krishna, May 21, 2015.
- "One year of Modi government: PM's reform speed is rightly slow, some slogans not so smart" Economic Times, Jagdish Bhagwati & Pravin Krishna, May 19, 2015.
- "The false alarms over Christians in India" liveMint, Jagdish Bhagwati, Mar. 29, 2015.
- "Why PM Narendra Modi should overcome populist anti-reformers both politically and intellectually." The Economic Times, Jagdish Bhagwati, Jan 9, 2015.
- "Rural inefficiency act: Despite protests about diluting NREGA, the PM is right to confine it to 200 poorest districts." Times of India; Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya; Oct. 23, 2014.
- "The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges." Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University; Jagdish Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, Arvind Panagariya; May 3, 2014.
- "Scaling up the Gujarat Model." The Hindu, Jagdish Bhagwati May 20, 2014.
- "Green Cards vs. Citizenship." The Wall Street Journal, Jagdish Bhagwati & May L. Yang, May 9, 2014.
- "Financial Crisis and Wall Street Treasury Complex Op-eds ." Jagdish Bhagwati
- "Markets and Morality ." Jagdish Bhagwati
- "Time for a Rethink (Millenium Development Goals) ." Jagdish Bhagwati
- "Lok Sabha Lecture: Jagdish Bhagwati on Indian Reforms: Yesterday and Today." Jagdish Bhagwati
- "Jagdish Bhagwati on Immigration Reform." Council for Foreign Relations, Jagdish Bhagwati
- "Secularism, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights." Jagdish Bhagwati
- "The Myths and Fallacies Driving Protectionism." Jagdish Bhagwati
- "Foreign Aid Review." Foreign Affairs, Jagdish Bhagwati
- "The Critiques of Capitalism after the Crisis: Myths and Fallacies." World Affairs Journal, Jagdish Bhagwati
- "A Kinder, Gentler Immigration Policy." Foreign Affairs, December, 2013.
- "On immigration, look to the states." Los Angeles Times, Dec 15, 2013.
- "Dawn of a New System." Finance & Development, December, 2013.
- "Another Man's Poison." Times of India, September 8, 2013.
- "Populism may prove to be a poison pill.." Financial Times, Aug 21, 2013.
- "Cost of Medical Devices, in the U.S. and Abroad.." The New York Times, Aug 7, 2013.
- "Signing up to safety laws does workers more harm than good.." Financial Times, July 18, 2013.
- "Go for growth in India." The Economist, July 13, 2013.
- "Restrictions 'help US unions more than workers'." Deutsche Welle, July 3, 2013.
- "Responsibility is Local, Not Global." The New York Times, May 2, 2013.
- "Don't blame the brands." Prospect Magazine, April 2, 2013.
- "Guestworkers: Hard To Turn Off Flow." YaleGlobal, February 25, 2013.
- "How to help feminism." Prospect Magazine, January 23, 2013.
- "Futurama." The Daily Beast, January 23, 2013.
- "Offshoring & outsourcing." The Economist, January 22, 2013.
- "Blame Bangladesh,Not the Brands." The New York Times, December 30, 2012.
- "Untenable critiques sowing confusion on supposed ill-effects of retail FDI." The Economic Times, October 16, 2012.
- "A Time for Gaffes." The Times of India, October 1, 2012.
- "Plagiarism is more than an academic matter." Financial Times, August 16, 2012.
- "Shaping India's Future." The Times of India, June 26, 2012.
- "Reasons to be optimistic about India's economy." Financial Times, June 6, 2012.
- "Okonjo-Iweala offers bank both macro and micro vision." Financial Times, April 6, 2012.
- "Shame on You, Mr Obama, for Pandering on Trade." Financial Times, February 6, 2012.
- "Indian Reforms: Yesterday and Today." Speech delivered to the Indian Lok Sabha, December 2, 2010.
- "India’s reform and growth have lifted all boats." Financial Times,.
- "This is how economic reforms have transformed India." Edited excerpts of Professor Bhagwati's lecture at the Indian Parliament on December 2, 2010.
- "Corruption Exaggerated in India." Hindustan Times, December 02, 2010.
- "In Search of Virtue." Book review of Gurcharan Das’s The Difficulty of Being Good, October 11, 2010.
- "Time for a Rethink." Finance & Development, September, 2010.
- "Lessons from the Current Crisis." QFinance, August 25, 2010.
- "Expanding India's Expertise." Times of India, Aug 21, 2010.
- Letter to the Economist on auctioning immigration rights, July 2, 2010, and a shorter version from July 10.
- WTO DG Pascal Lamy's Preface for the French Edition of In Defense of Globalization by Odile Jacob, 2010.
- Climate Change Packet, April, 2010
- "Agreeing on a Framework Agreement at Copenhagen." Australian Financial Review, December 9, 2009.
- "Why 'Carbon-Tax-Equalization' Tariffs are a Bad Idea" with Arvind Panagariya Times of India: December 8, 2009.
- "India Today and Yesterday." India Today, December 4, 2009
- Suggested speech for the Prime Minister of India, Times of India, November, 2009.
- "Stricter Rules for Skilled-Worker Visas Are a Mistake." Interview of Jagdish Bhagwati by Toni Johnson, Council on Foreign Relations, November 12, 2009.
- "World Trade: Good News and Bad News" Handelsblatt, October 2009.
- Review Article of Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo for Foreign Affairs, October 19, 2009
- "The Critiques of Capitalism After the Crisis: Myths and Fallacies." World Affairs Journal, October 2009.
- "The Critiques of Capitalism After the Crisis: Myths and Fallacies" Handelsblatt, September, 2009
- "Jagdish Bhagwati on Immigration Reform" Concil on Foreign Relations, July, 2009.
- "Check It- Union-loving free traders unite!" The New Republic, April 1, 2009.
- Op-Eds on trade and the financial crisis, 2008 to 2009.
- Writings on the financial crisis and the Wall Street treasury complex between 1998 and 2009.
- Op-Eds and letters on free trade in Health Care, 1984 to 2009.
- French edition preface to Free Trade Today.
- "Gordon Brown Should Keep Obama Honest on Free Trade," Forbes.com, March 4, 2009.
- "President Obama and Trade Policy," Keynote Luncheon Speech at World Affairs Council Summit, Washington DC, February 19, 2009.
- "That 'Buy American' Provision," NYT.com Room for Debate Blog, February 11, 2009.
- "Obama must fight the protectionist virus," Financial Times, February 5, 2009.
- "Obama and trade: an alarm sounds," Financial Times, January 9, 2009.
- "India: The Role of the Diaspora." Pravasi Samman Oration, January 8, 2009
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- "Global Warming" for a meeting in Florence, April, 2008.
- Op Ed on Obama and Clinton on Trade, Financial Times, March 4, 2008.
- "Defending Sweatshops," BBC 4: Iconoclasts Series, November 12, 2008.
- "We need to guard against destructive creation," Financial Times, October 16, 2008.
- "Why the Critics of Free Trade are Mistaken," C.D. Howe Institute, The Sylvia Ostry Lecture, October 2008.
- BBC Postcard on the Financial Crisis, October 2008.
- "Bhagwati's Thoughts on the Financial Crisis," September 2008.
- "Why the Critics of Globalization are Mistaken," Handelsblatt, August 2008.
- "Doha: The Last Mile," Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, The New York Sun, August 21, 2008.
- "The selfish hegemon must offer a New Deal on trade," Financial Times, August 20, 2008.
- "What Makes Capitalism Work?," Creative Capitalism, July 14, 2008.
- "The Critiques of Free Trade: A Refutation," World Bank Lecture, June 25, 2008.
- "How the Food Crisis Could Solve the Doha Round," Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya,Financial Times June 23, 2008.
- "Prepared Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee," June 11, 2008.
- "Speech at Brookings Global Economy and Development Conference," June 9, 2008.
- "We Need Free Trade in Health Care," Jagdish Bhagwati and Sandip Madan, The Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2008.
- "Global Warming," For Meeting in Florence, May 2, 2008
- Oxford Forum: "Globalization," May 2008
- "Food Crisis," International Herald Tribune, April 29, 2008
- "Skilled Migration," Bhagwati Intro to Oxford University Press Volume 2008, April 29, 2008
- Stockholm School of Economics Special Lecture: "Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Trading Agreements are Undermining Free Trade," April 10, 2008
- "Letter to the Editor, Food Crisis and Agricultural Subsidies," The Financial Times, April 3, 2008
- "Obama’s free-trade credentials top Clinton’s," The Financial Times, March 3, 2008
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- "Don't Cry for Free Trade," The Financial Times, October 10, 2007
- "Public Interest and Economic Policy," Daedalus essay, August 2007
- "Illegal Immigrants Deserve to Be Treated With Decency," The Financial Times, July 25, 2007
- "Why the Trade Talks Collapsed," with Professor Arvind Panagariya, The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2007
- "Foes of Free Trade Get a Foot in the Door," The Financial Times, May 22, 2007
- Thomas Schelling Award for Major Impact on Public Policy, and the Dean's award speech at The Kennedy School, Harvard University, May 2007
- "AFL-CIO Aims to Capture Congress on Financial, Not Intellectual, Grounds," The Financial Times, April 16, 2007
- "America's Bipartisan Battle Against Free Trade," The Financial Times, April 9, 2007
- Senate Finance Committee Testimony on U.S. Trade Policy: The China Question, March 27, 2007
- "Made In China," The New York Times Book Review (Will Hutton's "The Writing on The Wall"), February 18, 2007
- "Letter to The Editor: Fast Track Renewal Could Lead to Tougher Demands on the Poor," The Financial Times, February 2, 2007
- "Technology, Not Globalization, Is Driving Wages Down," The Financial Times, January 3, 2007
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- "A blend of strong measures puts trade talks back together." The Financial Times, December 20, 2005
- "Secularism in India: Why Is It Imperiled?" December 2005.
- "From Seattle to Hong Kong: Are We Getting Anywhere?" (unedited version) Foreign Affairs, Special Edition, December 2005.
- "How to resolve the deadlock holding back world trade." The Financial Times, November 15, 2005
- "Aid: Old Lessons and New Concepts."for Davos Global Agenda, November 2005.
- "A Deeply Flawed Report on Global Migration." The Financial Times, October 6, 2005.
- "An opportunity for Democrats to denounce protectionism." The Financial Times, August 10, 2005
- "A New Vocabulary for Trade." Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2005
- "Shifting To High Gear." India Today, August 1, 2005
- "Political will, not just aid, can lift Africa out of despair."(with Ibrahim Gambari) The Financial Times, July 5, 2005.
- "Multi-Faith America Is No Theocracy." The Financial Times, April 14, 2005.
- "A Chance to Lift the 'Aid Curse.'" Wall Street Journal,, March 22, 2005.
- "In Defense of Globalization: It Has a Human Face." Angelo Costa Lecture, Rome, Italy, January 20, 2005.
- "The Truth About Trade." Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2005.
- "Reshaping the WTO." Far Eastern Economic Review, January/February 2005.
- "Protectionism." The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Ed. David R. Henderson, 2005. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Protectionism.html
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- "The Muddles Over Outsourcing." (with Arvind Panagariya and T.N. Srinivasan) Appeared in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2004
- "Ambitions That Led to an Avalance of Failure (Review of The World's Banker by Sebastian Mallaby)." Appeared in The Financial Times, October 1, 2004
- "Muddled and Maddening." Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2004
- "Great Expectations." (with Arvind Panagariya) Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2004
- "Religion in Public Space." Abbreviated version appeared in The Financial Times, April 2004.
- "...And a New Dawn for Immigrants." Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2004
- "Comment: Globalisation with a Human Face," The Guardian, by Salil Tripathi, February 24, 2004.
- "Don't Cry for Cancun." Foreign Affairs, January/February 2004
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- "What Really Happened in Seattle?"Abbreviated version entitled "An Unjustified Sense of Victory" appeared in The Financial Times, December 21, 1999
- "The Seattle Fiasco: President Clinton's Failure or Triumph?" The Washington Post,December 1999
- Third World Intellectuals andNGOs-Statement Against Linkage" November 1999
- "Globalization: The Question of AppropriateGovernance." Sang-don Suh Prize acceptance lecture given at Taegu, Korea, October 7, 1999
- "Outward-Orientation And Development: AreRevisionists Right?" (with Professor T.N. Srinivasan for Professor Anne Krueger festchrift,September 1999
- "Trade and Culture: America’sBlind Spot." September 1999
- "But Mr. Clinton, Globalization has aHuman Face." Abbreviated version appeared in The Financial Times, August 17, 1999
- "Economic Freedom: Prosperity andSocial Progress." Keynote Speech: Conference on Economic Freedom and Development, Tokyo, June17-18 1999
- "Free Trade in the 21st Century:Managing Viruses, Phobias, and Social Agendas." Third Anitaand Robert Summers Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, April 13, 1999
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- "Moral Obligations and Trade."Presented at Senator Bob Kerrey's BACKPAK Conference on InternationalTrade, Omaha, Nebraska, December 12, 1998
- "Notes on Krugman's Article onMyth of Asian Miracle." November 11, 1998
- "Why Free Capital Mobility May beHazardous to Your Health: Lessons from the Latest Financial Crisis."NBER Conference on Capital Controls, Cambridge, MA, November 7,1998
- Comment on Dani Rodrik'sarticle, "The Global Fix" (New Republic, November 2,1998). Response to Rodrik'sresponse Bhagwati's comment.
- Letter to the Financial Times onMultilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). Short versionappeared in the Financial Times,October 1998
- "Free Trade: Why AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club,and Congressman Gephardt Should Like It." Remarks made at a paneldiscussion on the occasion of the award of the Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, September 18, 1998
- "Free Trade: What Now?" Keynoteaddress, on the occasion of the award of the 1998 Freedom Prise of theMax Schmidheiny Foundation, International Management Symposium,University of St. Gallen, Switzerland on May 25, 1998
- "The Post-Nuclear Deterrent."Longer version appeared in India Today (a leading Indiannewsweekly) after India conducted nuclear tests, May 1998
- "Fifty Years: Looking Back, Looking Forward."Symposium on the World Trading System, organized by the WTO and theGraduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, April 30, 1998
- "Regionalism and Multilateralism: WTO,MERCOSUR, et al." Argentine Bankers' Conference, May 1998
- "Play it Again, Sam: A New Look atTrade and Wages." Yale University Conference in honor ofProfessor T.N. Srinivasan's 65th Birthday, March 27 and 28, 1998.Published in a festschrift volume.
- "Comment on Borjas."University of Michigan conference held in Washington, DC, Spring 1998
- "Illegals in our midst: GettingPolicy Exactly Wrong." BostonReview of Books, 1998.
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