Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik (born 5 April 1943), is an Indian-American emeritus professor at the Department of Economics at the University of California. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik is an advisory editor for the journal Social Choice and Welfare.

He is a recipient of the Padma Shri award of 2020 by the Government of India in Literature and Education.

Education Pattanaik gained his degree in economics from Utkal University, Odisha, India. He then went on to study for his master's degree and doctorate, both in economics, at the Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi.

Pattanaik studied under, the Nobel Prize winning economist, Amartya Sen and his "leadership role" in the study of social choice theory has been acknowledged by Sen. Book preview.

Selected bibliography

Book series Pattanaik is one of the series editors for the Springer series Studies in Choice and Welfare, which included being co-editor of Rational choice and social welfare theory and applications: essays in honor of Kotaro Suzumura.

Books

Papers presented at the symposium on collective choice, which was held in Caen, from 4 September to 9 September 1980.

Chapters in books

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Journal articles 1965–1969

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2010–2014

Discussion papers Discussion paper number 8807. Discussion paper number 9105. Occasional paper series on culture and development, 2. Working paper series 9903.

IZA discussion paper number 4818.

References

External links Profile: Prasanta Pattanaik Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside Prasanta Pattanaik Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford