The Impact of a Scholar's Career: More than Just the Usual Numbers for Jagdish Bhagwati

Abstract

Professor Jagdish Bhagwati is a prolific scholar with an impressive array of awards and multiple publications to his name. By traditional measures of output, Professor Bhagwati has clearly addressed many interesting questions. Yet there is more to a scholar's career than can be captured by these numbers; Professor Bhagwati's work can also be marked by the importance of the questions he asks. Important questions offer insight into how we can reframe our thinking. Beyond contributing to the debate about globalization and free trade, Professor Bhagwati has helped reshape it. In this chapter, I identify several important questions that he has asked regarding the role of globalization in poverty alleviation and explore their importance in helping us think differently about how globalization can work better for the poor.

Citation

London, T. (2012), "The Impact of a Scholar's Career: More than Just the Usual Numbers for Jagdish Bhagwati", Tihanyi, L., Devinney, T.M. and Pedersen, T. (Ed.) Institutional Theory in International Business and Management (Advances in International Management, Vol. 25), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 15-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-5027(2012)0000025007