Prasanta Pattanaik

Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik (born 4 May 1943), is emeritus professor at the Department of Economics at the University of California, a research associate for the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI), and a fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association.
Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik is an advisory editor for the journal Social Choice and Welfare.

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 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 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

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

Chapters in books

• Pattanaik, Prasanta K. (2002), "Positional rules of collective decision-making", in Sen, Amartya; Suzumura, Kōtarō; Arrow, Kenneth J., Handbook of social choice and welfare, Amsterdam Boston: Elsevier, pp. 361–394, ISBN 9780444829146. 

Also available as: a journal article.

• Pattanaik, Prasanta K. (2008), "social welfare function (definition)", in Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E., The new Palgrave dictionary of economics (2nd ed.), Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780333786765. 

Also available as: a journal article.

• Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; Dhongde, Shatakshee (2009), "Preference, choice, and rationality: Amartya Sen's critique of the theory of rational choice in economics", in Morris, Christopher, Amartya Sen, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 13–39, ISBN 9780521618069. 
• Pattanaik, Prasanta K. (2009), "Rights, individual preferences and collective rationality", in Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Kaushik, Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume I: Ethics, welfare, and measurement, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 213–230, ISBN 9780199239115 

Journal articles

1965–1969

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

1970–1974

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

1975–1979

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

1980–1984

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

1985–1989

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

1990–1994

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

1995–1999

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

2000–2004

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

2005–2009

• Pattanaik, Prasanta K. (December 2005). "Little and Bergson on Arrow's concept of social welfare". Social Choice and Welfare. Springer. 25 (2-3): 369–379. doi:10.1007/s00355-005-0009-73. 
• Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; Xu, Yongsheng (April 2007). "Minimal relativism, dominance, and standard of living comparisons based on functionings". Oxford Economic Papers. Oxford University Press. 59 (2): 354–374. doi:10.1093/oep/gpl030. 
• Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; Chakraborty, Achin; Xu, Yongsheng (January 2008). "On the mean of squared deprivation gaps". Economic Theory. Springer. 34 (1): 181–187. doi:10.1007/s00199-006-0128-0. 

2010–2014

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

Discussion papers

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

• "Studies in Choice and Welfare". Springer. Retrieved 29 September 2014. 
• Pattanaik, Prasanta K.; Tadenuma, Koichi; Xu, Yongsheng; Yoshihara, Naoki (2008). Rational choice and social welfare theory and applications: essays in honor of Kotaro Suzumura. Studies in Choice and Welfare. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 9783540798316.