Prasanta Pattanaik


Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik, 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.

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.
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Chapters in books

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Journal articles

1965–1969
1970–1974
1975–1979
1980–1984
1985–1989
1990–1994
1995–1999
2000–2004
2005–2009
2010–2014
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Discussion papers