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Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Columbia University

Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Columbia University INTERVIEW Interviewed by Pieter H.F. Bekkerà 1. Prof. Bhagwati, thank you for sharing your views with the GTCJ. Our readers are primarily working in or with international business, or in governments, to manage the many regulatory barriers and limits on trade. I know they will benefit from your insight. I like to begin by asking you to share with us what has driven you to devote your life to international trade? My academic interest in international trade was aroused by eminent teachers. At Cambridge, England, I was seduced by the great international trade theorist, Harry Johnson, who later joined Chicago; and at MIT, which I spent a year at between Cambridge and Oxford, Paul Samuelson was a major influence: arguably the greatest economist of his time, he had made a huge impact on trade theory in particular. So, I wound up specializing in international trade theory, beginning with my influential 1956 paper on Immiserizing Growth, which, in fact, I wrote even while I was an undergraduate student at Cambridge. Later, starting with my 1963 paper on optimal policy intervention in the presence of market distortions, the main body of my theoretical work would lay the foundations of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Global Trade and Customs Journal Kluwer Law International

Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Columbia University

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Global Trade and Customs Journal , Volume 5 (10) – Oct 1, 2010
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INTERVIEW Interviewed by Pieter H.F. Bekkerà 1. Prof. Bhagwati, thank you for sharing your views with the GTCJ. Our readers are primarily working in or with international business, or in governments, to manage the many regulatory barriers and limits on trade. I know they will benefit from your insight. I like to begin by asking you to share with us what has driven you to devote your life to international trade? My academic interest in international trade was aroused by eminent teachers. At Cambridge, England, I was seduced by the great international trade theorist, Harry Johnson, who later joined Chicago; and at MIT, which I spent a year at between Cambridge and Oxford, Paul Samuelson was a major influence: arguably the greatest economist of his time, he had made a huge impact on trade theory in particular. So, I wound up specializing in international trade theory, beginning with my influential 1956 paper on Immiserizing Growth, which, in fact, I wrote even while I was an undergraduate student at Cambridge. Later, starting with my 1963 paper on optimal policy intervention in the presence of market distortions, the main body of my theoretical work would lay the foundations of the

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