Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik
(born 5 April 1943),
is emeritus professor at the Department of Economics at the
University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Franci ...
. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Along with
Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...
and
Kenneth Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow (23 August 1921 – 21 February 2017) was an American economist, mathematician, writer, and political theorist. He was the joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Hicks in 1972.
In economics ...
, Pattanaik is an advisory editor for the journal ''
Social Choice and Welfare
''Social Choice and Welfare'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering social choice and welfare issues. The journal was established in 1984 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media.
According to the ''Journal Citation Re ...
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He is a recipient of the
Padma Shri
Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...
award of 2020 by the Government of India in Literature and Education.
Education
Pattanaik gained his degree in economics from
Utkal University,
Odisha, India
Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...
. He then went on to study for his masters and doctorate, both in economics, at the prestigious Delhi School of Economics
University of Delhi
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...
.
Pattanaik studied under, the
Nobel Prize
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winning economist,
Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...
and his "leadership role" in the study of
social choice theory
Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a ''collective decision'' or ''social welfare'' in some sense.Amartya Sen (2008). "Soci ...
has been acknowledged by Sen.
Selected bibliography
Book series
Pattanaik is one of the series editors for the
Springer
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Publishers
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** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...
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''.
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References
External links
Profile: Prasanta PattanaikDepartment of Economics, University of California, Riverside
Prasanta PattanaikOxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford
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1943 births
Living people
Odia people
Microeconomists
Moral philosophers
Political philosophers
University of California, Riverside faculty
Delhi University alumni
Utkal University alumni
Fellows of the Econometric Society