Prasanta Pattanaik Explained

Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik
Birth Date:	1943 4, df=yes
Alma Mater:	University of Delhi
Field:	Social choice theory and microeconomic theory
Institution:	University of California
Influences:	Amartya Sen
Awards:	Padma Shri^[1]

Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik^[2] (born 5 April 1943),^[3] is an Indian-American^[4] 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.^[5]

He is a recipient of the Padma Shri award of 2020 by the Government of India in Literature and Education.^[6]

Education

Pattanaik gained his degree in economics from Utkal University, Odisha, India. He then went on to study for his masters and doctorate, both in economics, at the prestigious Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi.^[7]

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.^[8]

Selected bibliography

Book series

Pattanaik is one of the series editors for the Springer series Studies in Choice and Welfare,^[9] which included being co-editor of Rational choice and social welfare theory and applications: essays in honor of Kotaro Suzumura.^[10]

Books

• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Voting and collective choice: some aspects of the theory of group decision-making . registration . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK . 1971 . 9780521079617 . 874575799 .
• Book: Pattanaik, Prasanta . Strategy and group choice . North-Holland Publishing Co. Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier North-Holland . Amsterdam New York New York . 1978 . 9780444851260 . registration .
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Salles . Maurice . Social choice and welfare: contributions to economic analysis . North-Holland Publishing Co. Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Publishing Co. . Amsterdam New York New York . 1983 . 9780444864871 . Papers presented at the symposium on collective choice, which was held in Caen, from 4 September to 9 September 1980.
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Gaertner . Wulf . Distributive justice and inequality: a selection of papers given at a conference, Berlin, May 1986 . Springer-Verlag . Berlin New York . 1988 . 9783540194217 .
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Basu . Kaushik . Suzumura . Kotaro . Kaushik Basu . Kotaro Suzumura . Choice, welfare, and development: a festschrift in honour of Amartya K. Sen . Clarendon Press Oxford University Press . Oxford New York . 1995 . 9780198287896 .
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Cullenberg . Stephen . Globalization, culture, and the limits of the market: essays in economics and philosophy . Oxford University Press . Themes in Economics . New Delhi New York . 2004 . 9780195664461 .
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Tadenuma . Koichi . Xu . Yongsheng . Yoshihara . Naoki . Rational choice and social welfare theory and applications: essays in honor of Kotaro Suzumura . Springer . Studies in Choice and Welfare . Berlin . 2008 . 9783540798316 .
• Book: Pattanaik, Prasanta . Essays on individual decision-making and social welfare . Oxford University Press . New Delhi New York . 2009 . 9780195695960 .
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Anand . Paul . Puppe . Clemens . The handbook of rational and social choice: an overview of new foundations and applications . Oxford University Press . Oxford New York . 2009 . 9780199290420 .

Chapters in books

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Journal articles

1965–1969

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . A note on Leibenstein's 'Notes on welfare economics and the theory of democracy' . The Economic Journal . 77 . 308 . 953–956 . 10.2307/2229616 . December 1967 . 2229616 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . A note on democratic decision and the existence of choice sets . The Review of Economic Studies . 35 . 1 . 1–9 . 10.2307/2974402 . January 1968 . 2974402 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Risk, impersonality, and the social welfare function . Journal of Political Economy . 76 . 6 . 1152–1169 . November–December 1968 . 1830155 . 10.1086/259479. 154782047 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Sen . Amartya . Amartya Sen . Necessary and sufficient conditions for rational choice under majority decision . Journal of Economic Theory . 1 . 2 . 178–202 . 10.1016/0022-0531(69)90020-9 . August 1969 .

1970–1974

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Sufficient conditions for the existence of a choice set under majority voting . Econometrica . 38 . 1 . 165–170 . 10.2307/1909248 . January 1970 . 1909248 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Domestic distortions and the gains from trade . The Economic Journal . 80 . 319 . 638–649 . 10.2307/2229957 . September 1970 . 2229957 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Batra . Raveendra N. . Ravi Batra . On some suggestions for having non-binary social choice functions . Theory and Decision . 3 . 1 . 1–11 . 10.1007/BF00139349 . October 1972 . 121130018 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . On the stability of sincere voting situations . Journal of Economic Theory . 6 . 6 . 558–574 . 10.1016/0022-0531(73)90076-8 . December 1973 .

1975–1979

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Strategic voting without collusion under binary and democratic group decision rules . The Review of Economic Studies . 42 . 1 . 93–103 . 10.2307/2296823 . January 1975 . 2296823 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Counter-threats and strategic manipulation under voting schemes . The Review of Economic Studies . 43 . 1 . 11–18 . 10.2307/2296596 . February 1976 . 2296596 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Dutta . Bhaskar . On nicely consistent voting systems . Econometrica . 46 . 1 . 163–170 . 10.2307/1913653 . January 1978 . 1913653 .

1980–1984

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Sengupta . Manimay . Outcomes of admissible Nash equilibria and sophisticated voting when decisions are based on pairwise comparisons . Mathematical Social Sciences . 2 . 1 . 39–54 . 10.1016/0165-4896(82)90043-9 . January 1982 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Peleg . Bezalel . An axiomatic characterization of the lexicographic maximin extension of an ordering over a set to the power set . Social Choice and Welfare . 1 . 2 . 113–122 . 10.1007/BF00452883 . August 1984 . 121720013 .

1985–1989

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Barrett . C.R. . Salles . Maurice . On the structure of fuzzy social welfare functions . Fuzzy Sets and Systems . 19 . 1 . 1–10 . 10.1016/S0165-0114(86)80072-0 . May 1986 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Barrett . C.R. . Aggregation of probability judgments . Econometrica . 55 . 5 . 1237–1241 . 10.2307/1911272 . September 1987 . 1911272 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Gaertner . Wulf . An interview with Amartya Sen . Social Choice and Welfare . 5 . 1 . 69–79 . 10.1007/BF00435498 . March 1988 . 153883889 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . On the consistency of libertarian values . Economica . 55 . 220 . 517–524 . 10.2307/2553913 . November 1988 . 2553913 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Barrett . C.R. . Bargaining over employment and wages, with threats of strikes and lockouts: An extension of the Nash solution . European Journal of Political Economy . 5 . 2–3 . 333–345 . 10.1016/0176-2680(89)90053-0 . 1989 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Barrett . C. Richard . Fuzzy sets, preference and choice: some conceptual issues . Bulletin of Economic Research . 41 . 4 . 229–254 . 10.1111/j.1467-8586.1989.tb00341.x . October 1989 .

1990–1994

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Xu . Yongsheng . On ranking opportunity sets in terms of freedom of choice . Recherches Économiques de Louvain / Louvain Economic Review . 56 . 3–4 . 383–390 . Department of Economics, Universite Catholique de Louvain via JSTOR . 1990 . 10.1017/S0770451800043955 . 40723933 . 153418558 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Suzumura . Kōtarō . Gaertner . Wulf . Kotaro Suzumura . Individual rights revisited . Economica . 59 . 234 . 161–177 . 10.2307/2554744 . May 1992 . 2554744 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Rights and freedom in welfare economics . European Economic Review . 38 . 3–4 . 731–738 . 10.1016/0014-2921(94)90108-2 . April 1994 .

1995–1999

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Sengupta . Manimay . An alternative axiomatization of Sen's poverty measure . The Review of Income and Wealth . 41 . 1 . 73–80 . 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1995.tb00094.x . March 1995 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Suzumura . Kōtarō . Kotaro Suzumura . Individual rights and social evaluation: a conceptual framework . Oxford Economic Papers . 48 . 2 . 194–212 . April 1996 . 10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a028565.
• Book: Pattanaik, Prasanta K. . Consensus Under Fuzziness . Fuzziness and the Normative Theory of Social Choice . 10 . 17–27 . Springer . 10.1007/978-1-4615-6333-4_2 . 1997 . International Series in Intelligent Technologies . 978-1-4613-7908-9 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Deb . Rajat . Razzolini . Laura . Game forms, rights, and the efficiency of social outcomes . Journal of Economic Theory . 72 . 1 . 74–95 . 10.1006/jeth.1996.2201 . January 1997 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Xu . Yongsheng . On preference and freedom . Theory and Decision . 44 . 2 . 173–198 . 10.1023/A:1004924211553 . April 1998 . 117801220 .

2000–2004

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Xu . Yongsheng . On diversity and freedom of choice . Mathematical Social Sciences . 40 . 2 . 123–130 . 10.1016/S0165-4896(99)00043-8 . September 2000 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Dutta . Indranil . Xu . Yongsheng . On measuring deprivation and the standard of living in a multidimensional framework on the basis of aggregate data . Economica . 70 . 278 . 197–221 . 10.1111/1468-0335.t01-1-00279 . May 2003 . 18619347 .

2005–2009

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Little and Bergson on Arrow's concept of social welfare . Social Choice and Welfare . 25 . 2–3 . 369–379 . 10.1007/s00355-005-0009-7. December 2005 . 1451237 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Xu . Yongsheng . Minimal relativism, dominance, and standard of living comparisons based on functionings . Oxford Economic Papers . 59 . 2 . 354–374 . 10.1093/oep/gpl030 . April 2007 . 36357167 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Chakraborty . Achin . Xu . Yongsheng . On the mean of squared deprivation gaps . Economic Theory . 34 . 1 . 181–187 . 10.1007/s00199-006-0128-0 . January 2008 . 62881711 .

2010–2014

• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Dasgupta . Indraneel . Revealed preference with stochastic demand correspondence . The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics . 10 . 1 . 1935-1704 . 10.2202/1935-1704.1654 . August 2010 . 10.1.1.519.4248 . 53574356 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Bhattacharyya . Aditi . Xu . Yongsheng . Choice, internal consistency and rationality . Economics and Philosophy . 27 . 2 . 123–149 . 10.1017/S0266267111000034 . July 2011 . 10.1.1.726.5608 . 644747 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Xu . Yongsheng . Reddy . Sanjay G. . On measuring deprivation and living standards of societies in a multi-attribute framework . Oxford Economic Papers . 64 . 1 . 43–56 . 10.1093/oep/gpr034 . January 2012 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Xu . Yongsheng . On dominance and context-dependence in decisions involving multiple attributes . Economics and Philosophy . 28 . 2 . 117–132 . 10.1017/S0266267112000132 . July 2012 . 10.1.1.529.5448 . 13242197 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . The concepts of choice and preference in economics . Journal of Economic Methodology . 20 . 2 . 215–218 . 10.1080/1350178X.2013.804680 . 2013 . 154367803 .
• Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Xu . Yongsheng . The ethical bases of public policies: a conceptual framework . Economics and Philosophy . 30 . 2 . 175–194 . 10.1017/S0266267114000157 . July 2014 . 232148053 .

Discussion papers

• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Sengupta . Manimay . Poverty measurement: a generalization of Sen's result . Department of Economics, University of Canterbury . Christchurch, New Zealand . 1988 . 153036842 . Discussion paper number 8807.
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Sengupta . Manimay . On an index of poverty . Department of Economics, University of Canterbury . Christchurch, New Zealand . 1991 . 154042194 . Discussion paper number 9105.
• Book: Pattanaik, Prasanta K. . Cultural indicators of well-being: some conceptual issues . United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), UNESCO . Geneeva and Paris . 1997 . 38002114 . Occasional paper series on culture and development, 2.
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Dasgupta . Indraneel . Kumar . Subodh . On falsifiability of the maximization hypothesis . School of Economics, Deakin University . Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia . 1999 . 9780730027737 . Working paper series 9903.
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Barberà . Salvador . Bossert . Walter . Ranking sets of objects . Université de Montréal, Département de sciences économiques . Montréal, Canada . 2001 . 47035661 .
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Xu . Yongsheng . Bossert . Walter . The measurement of diversity . Université de Montréal, Département de sciences économiques . Montréal, Canada . 2001 . 48754480 .
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Dutta . Indranil . Gundersen . Craig . Measures of food insecurity at the household level . United Nations University - World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) . Helsinki, Finland . 2006 . 315670257 .
• Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Dasgupta . Indraneel . Comparative statics for a consumer with possibly multiple optimum consumption bundles . Bonn Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH, Institute for the Study of Labor (Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, IZA) . Bonn, Germany . 2010 . 643195342 . IZA discussion paper number 4818.

External links

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

Notes and References

1. https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/2020AwardeesList_25012020_2.pdf
2. Web site: Pattanaik, Prasanta K. (Prasanta Kumar) . Virtual International Authority File . 29 September 2014.
3. Web site: Pattanaik, Prasanta K. . Library of Congress . 29 September 2014 . data sheet (b. 5-4-1943) .
4. Web site: Padma Awardees: 2020. Ministry of Home Affairs (India). 25 January 2020. 26 August 2020. 2–6.
5. Web site: Social Choice and Welfare | Editorial board | Advisory Editors . Springer . 29 September 2014.
6. https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/2020AwardeesList_25012020_2.pdf
7. Web site: Prasanta Pattanaik. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford. 29 September 2014. 27 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200127052415/https://ophi.org.uk/about/people/prasanta-pattanaik/. dead.
8. Book preview.
9. Web site: Studies in Choice and Welfare. Springer. 29 September 2014.
10. Book: Pattanaik . Prasanta K. . Tadenuma . Koichi . Xu . Yongsheng . Yoshihara . Naoki . Rational choice and social welfare theory and applications: essays in honor of Kotaro Suzumura . Springer . Studies in Choice and Welfare . Berlin . 2008 . 9783540798316 .