Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. He writes frequently for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times and is the author of Free Trade Today, The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization, and A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy. He lives in New York City.

In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics blame it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations. Now Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist, takes on the critics, revealing that globalization can be a powerful force for social good.