Prasanta Pattanaik

Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik
Born (1943-04-05) 5 April 1943
Academic background
Alma materUtkal University
Delhi School of Economics
University of Delhi
InfluencesAmartya Sen
Academic work
DisciplineSocial choice theory and microeconomic theory
InstitutionsUniversity of California
AwardsPadma Shri

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.

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