賈格迪什·巴格沃蒂(Jagdish Bhagwati)1956年畢業於劍橋大學，隨後就讀於麻省理工學院和牛津大學納菲爾德學院，師從薩繆爾森、索羅以及希剋斯和麥剋道格爾。1980年至今一直執教於美國哥倫比亞大學，擔任該校A·雷曼（Arthur Lehman）經濟學教授和政治學教授。巴格沃蒂教授曾經擔任過關貿總協定的經濟政策顧問、聯閤國全球化特彆顧問和世界貿易組織顧問。他於1971年和1989年先後創辦《國際經濟學》和《經濟學和政治學》雜誌，曾任美國經濟協會副主席和美國社會科學院院士。

巴格沃蒂教授的研究方嚮主要集中於國際貿易、福利經濟學和財政學等領域，是國際貿易領域最重要的理論傢之一。巴格沃蒂教授的論文《國內扭麯，關稅和最適度政府補貼理論》被證明是國際貿易理論史上最有影響力的一篇論文；而《扭麯和福利通論》一文則開創瞭國際經濟學的一個新領域。巴格沃蒂教授在國際經濟學領域的地位，使他一度成為“關稅”、“配額”、“走私”、“一般均衡狀態的有效保護”、“國際移民和貨物運輸”等詞匯的代名詞。

A leading international economist looks at many of the key issues of trade policy now confronting the United States and the world in this timely book. Clear, informative, and witty, Jagdish Bhagwati provides the best available analysis of the protection debate and offers a prescription for reform in this turbulent area of trade policy.Bhagwati identifies new and powerful interests and ideologies that are likely to dominate the outcome of the debate. He argues that opposing tendencies can be identified in trade-related ideologies and in the national and sectional interests that lobby on trade policy in pluralistic societies. He offers the prognosis that the forces favoring freer trade are more robust and more fundamental than the forces of protectionism, and that pro trade forces are likely to triumph in the end but only if we adapt appropriately the institutions within which these ideologies and interests must function.Through an appealing combination of text, quotations, cartoons, tables, charts, and graphs, Bhagwati provides a masterly and entertaining look at the forces for and against protection.Jagdish Bhagwati is Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Protectionism is based on the inaugural series of Ohlin Lectures, which he delivered at the Stockholm School of Economics in October of 1987.