Background
Pattanaik, Prasanta Kumar was born on April 5, 1943 in Cuttack, Orissa, India. Son of Kshetramohan and Krishnapriya (Mohanty) Pattanaik.
Pattanaik, Prasanta Kumar was born on April 5, 1943 in Cuttack, Orissa, India. Son of Kshetramohan and Krishnapriya (Mohanty) Pattanaik.
Bachelor (honours), Utkal University, India, 1963. Master of Arts, University Delhi, India, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, University Delhi, 1968.
Assistant Lector, Ram j as College, Delhi, 1965;Tutor, Lector, Delhi School Economics, 1965-1968. Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 1968-1970. Research Fellow, Nuffield College Oxford, 1970-1971.
Visiting Fellow, Reader, Professor, Delhi School Economics,
5. Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 1975-1977. Visiting Fellow, American National University, 1977.
Professor, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1977-1978, 1983. Fellow, Institute, Institution Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 1983. Professor Mathematics Economics, University Birmingham, Birmingham, England, since 1978.
Association Editor, Journal of Economic Theory. Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies, 1980-1983. Editor, Social Choice and Welfare, 1984.
(Book by Pattanaik, Prasanta K.)
Author: Voting and Collective Choice, 1971, Strategy and Group Choice, 1978. Co-editor: Social Choice and Welfare, 1983, managing editor: Social Choice and Welfare, since 1984. Numerous articles, chapters to books.
My main contribution has been in the area of social choice theory. I have also done some work on trade theory. In social choice theory I have worked on (1) conditions (formulated in terms of restrictions on profiles of individual preferences) for transitivity and quasitransitivity of different classes of group decision rules.
(2) strategic voting (especially for decision rules under which the sets of outcomes may not be singletons). And (3) stochastic social choice. In trade theory, my work concentrated on domestic distributions and welfare.
Fellow Econometric Society.
Literature.
Married Geeta Mohanty, June 11, 1968. 1 child, Swaha.