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Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Senior Fellow for International Economics

Expertise

International trade; economic policy reforms; immigration.

Featured Publications

In Defense of Globalization

In Defense of Globalization

Author: Jagdish N. Bhagwati

An internationally renowned economist, Jagdish Bhagwati takes conventional wisdom—that globalization is the cause of several social ills—and turns it on its head. Properly regulated, globalization, he says, is the most powerful force for social good in the world.

Termites in the Trading System

Termites in the Trading System

Author: Jagdish N. Bhagwati

In this book, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how preferential trade agreements have recreated the unhappy situation of the protectionist 1930s, when world trade was undermined by discriminatory practices, and argues that the world trading system is definitely at risk again.

Skilled Immigration Today

Skilled Immigration Today

Authors: Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson

While immigration reform usually refers to unskilled labor, skilled immigration requires different policy action. Bhagwati and Hanson bring together today's foremost immigration experts to examine the phenomenon.

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