Jagdish Bhagwati - Awards, Honors and Commentary

Awards, Honors and Commentary

• Mahalanobis Memorial Medal of the Indian Econometric Society (1974)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982)
• Seidman Distinguished Award in International Political Economy (1998)
• Padma Vibhushan Award (2000)
• Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (2004)
• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star (2006)

Other awards include the Bernhard Harms Prize (Germany), the Kenan Enterprise Award (United States), the Freedom Prize (Switzerland), and the John R. Commons Award (United States). He has also received honorary degrees from the University of Sussex and Erasmus University, as well as others.

Paul Samuelson, on the occasion of Bhagwati's 70th Birthday festschrift conference in Gainesville Florida, January 2005 said:

• "I measure a scholar’s prolific-ness not by the mere number of his publishings. Just as the area of a rectangle equals its width times its depth, the quality of a lifetime accomplishment must weight each article by its novelties and wisdoms.... Jagdish Bhagwati is more like Haydn: a composer of more than a hundred symphonies and no one of them other than top notch.... In the struggle to improve the lot of mankind, whether located in advanced economies or in societies climbing the ladder out of poverty, Jagdish Bhagwati has been a tireless partisan of that globalization which elevates global total-factor----productivities both of richest America and poorest regions of Asia and Africa."

Jagdish Bhagwati was the fictional winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in The Simpsons episode Elementary School Musical (The Simpsons).