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...let’s get real. Nobody is proposing punitive taxes or tariffs on foreign competition. Nobody is sure that new fears about what Ross Perot used to call “the sucking sound” of jobs sent abroad will actually be realized. Jagdish Bhagwati, a Columbia economics professor and former Samuelson student, responded to his old mentor’s concern with unshakeable—and, thus far, defensible—faith in American innovation to hold most jobs here...
...reduce poverty in the long run, but the long run might be too long to bear. Children working in sweatshops today gain little by being told that in 20 years' time their daughters will not have to stitch garments in a stinking hovel. In a recent paper Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University (whose zeal for free trade makes mine look Episcopal) puts it this way: "There is legitimate impatience at the speed with which globalization will deliver social agendas. We want to go faster...
...pressures in both countries threatened to bar any immediate settlement. For a struggling President Clinton, the get-tough sanctions promised to shore up his support in crucial industrial states such as Michigan and Ohio. "No U.S. politician ever lost at the polls by bashing Japan," says trade expert Jagdish Bhagwati, a Columbia University economist. And the political price? "So we lose the Lexus and Infiniti vote," shrugs a senior Administration official. "It's a risk we're prepared to take...
...Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University, warned in Friday's Wall Street Journal that "if a nation's trading rights can be suspended simply because it refuses to accept another nation's idiosyncratic values, everyone could insist on morality-driven trade restrictions and the whole international trade system would head down a slippery slope." He also sagely urged us to examine whether "environmental regulations are really protectionism in disguise...
...Mark Brevers (C), 15-11, 16-3, 14-18, 9-15, 16-15; 5. Jon Karlen (H) d. John Mao (C), 12-15, 15-8, 15-14, 15-8; 6. Jon Masland (H) d. In Kim (C), 15-4, 15-7, 15-8. 7. Josh Horwitz (H) d. Anuj Bhagwati (C), 15-7, 15-8, 15-5; 8. Raja Mahidhara (H) d. Clayton Sparks (C), 15-6, 15-1, 15-6; 9. Bobby Greenhill (H) d. Swapnil Shah...