Jagdish Bhagwati.

PROFESSOR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor, Economics and Law, at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served as adviser to the United Nations on globalization. Among his more than 50 books is In Defense of Globalization (Oxford, 2004), just reissued in a new edition with an afterword.

WHY GLOBALIZATION WORKS

By Martin Wolf (2004)

It's a splendid book that makes a spirited and successful defense of globalization against its critics.

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HOW TO SPEND $50 BILLION TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE

Edited by Bjorn Lomborg (2006)

Lomborg put together about 10 of the world's leading economists to see how one might rank different issues in terms of cost-effectiveness. The book is a useful antidote to the optimism about the Millennium Goals by people like Jeffrey Sachs [author of The End of Poverty]: these goals need to be analyzed by economists, not embraced uncritically as if we were PR persons rather than scholars.

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FINANCIAL CRISIS, CONTAGION, AND CONTAINMENT

From Asia to Argentina

By Padma Desai (2003)

Paul Krugman called this the "best book on financial crises today." It remains so to this day, and it has gained relevance as the world economy is poised at the edge of yet another financial crisis.

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