Category Archives: General

The following is a letter from Professor Jagdish Bhagwati to the Financial Times, dated May 26, 2011. Sir, The choice of a successor to Dominique Strauss-Kahn has elicited predictable comments, especially that the succession be on merit and should not … Continue reading →

On December 12, 2010, a suicide bombing was committed in central Stockholm by an Islamic terrorist who denounced the Swedish government for its “foolish support for the pig Vilks.” Vilks was the conceptual artist who had, in 2007, depicted the … Continue reading →

The feud in Bangladesh between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mohammed Yunus, the founder of the microloan-making Grameen Bank and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is being portrayed as a modern-day replay of the famous battle between the … Continue reading →

The Senate has already reported in favor of reinstating ROTC at Columbia. Yet, as I look through the transcript of the hearings, I cannot help feeling that many objections reflect fears that are not justified. In support, and in the … Continue reading →

In a recent symposium in the Financial Times on globalization’s prospects in 2011, the columnist Gideon Rachman observed that, “When Barack Obama visited India recently, the US President warned his hosts that the debate about globalization has reopened in the … Continue reading →

The following is a letter from Professor Jagdish Bhagwati to the Financial Times, dated January 13, 2011. Sir, Gideon Rachman writes that President Barack Obama told his Indian hosts that, thanks to the current crisis, “the debate about globalisation has … Continue reading →

I just returned from India, where I was lecturing to the Indian Parliament in the same hall where US President Barack Obama had recently spoken. The country was racked by scandal. A gigantic, ministerial-level scam in the mobile-telephone sector had … Continue reading →

Increasingly, corporations are under pressure, often from activist non-governmental organizations, to take on specific “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) obligations. But the fact that CSR is being demanded, and occasionally conceded, does not ensure clarity about either its rationale or the … Continue reading →

The Difficulty of being Good, by Gucharan Das, Oxford University Press 2010 Gurcharan Das made his debut as a writer with India Unbound, a title that draws aptly on David Landes’s celebrated and celebratory history of the Industrial Revolution, The … Continue reading →

Why and how Columbia should globalize. Universities function in a world that is increasingly integrated on many dimensions. Economic globalization continues in regard to international trade, short-term capital flows, multinationals which constitute equity investments, cross-border flows of humanity, and transfer … Continue reading →