Pranab Bardhan

Pranab Kumar Bardhan (born September 11, 1939 in Calcutta ) is a retired Indian professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley , where he has taught since 1977.

academic career

Pranab Bardhan studied first in Calcutta, India, at the University of Calcutta ( BA and MA ), then in Cambridge , England ( PhD ). Before moving to Berkeley, he worked at MIT , Delhi School of Economics and the Indian Statistical Institute . Visiting professorships have taken him to the London School of Economics , Trinity College (Cambridge) , St. Catherine's College (Oxford) and the University of Siena , Italy . Bardhan was a member of the Board of Editors of several economics journals, u. a. The American Economic Review (1978–81), Journal of Economic Perspectives (1989–94), International Economic Review (co-editor, 1971–1985) and Journal of Development Economics (editor-in-chief, 1985–2003). In 1981 his scientific work was supported with a Guggenheim grant .

research

Pranab Bardhans research focuses on the areas of development economics , international economics , political economy and institutional economics . Within these areas his main focus is on an economic theory of the role of institutions for economic development, globalization and poverty , political economy and the role of the state in developing countries , the economic development of India, cooperation and management of local commons and the economic aspects of governance , democracy and decentralization . His research is partly interdisciplinary, with interfaces to political science and social anthropology .

Selected Works

• Pranab Bardhan (1984), Land, Labor and Rural Poverty , Columbia University Press and Oxford University Press
• Pranab Bardhan (1984), The Political Economy of Development in India , Basil Blackwell, then Oxford University Press (2nd ed. 1999)
• Pranab Bardhan (Ed., 1989), Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists: Methodological Issues in Measuring Economic Change in Rural India , Oxford University Press
• Pranab Bardhan (Ed., 1991), The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions , Oxford University Press
• Pranab Bardhan and Christopher Udry (1999), Development Microeconomics , Oxford University Press
• Pranab Bardhan (2003), International Trade, Growth and Development , Blackwell
• Pranab Bardhan (2003), Poverty, Agrarian Structure and Political Economy in India , Oxford University Press
• Pranab Bardhan (2005), Scarcity, Conflicts and Cooperation: Essays in Political and Institutional Economics of Development , MIT Press
• Pranab Bardhan, Michael Wallerstein and Samuel Bowles (Eds., 2005), Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution , Princeton University Press and Russell Sage Foundation
• Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan and Samuel Bowles (Eds., 2006), Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability , Princeton University Press
• Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee (Eds., 2006), Decentralization to Local Governments in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective , MIT Press
• Pranab Bardhan (2010), Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: Assessing the Rise of China and India , Princeton University Press

Web links

• Literature by and about Pranab Bardhan in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography, photo and publications by Pranab Bardhan
• Autobiographical essay (PDF file; 126 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Employee profile at the University of California, Berkeley
2. ↑ ^{a b} CV of Pranab Bardhan (PDF file; 53 kB)
3. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Pranab K. Bardhan. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 13, 2016 .