Conference on “Non-Welfaristic Welfare: Capability, Choice and Rights”
In Honor of Professor Prasanta Pattanaik
University of California, Riverside
Friday, Oct 26, 10 am – HMNSS 1500
Saturday, Oct 27, 8:30 am – HMNSS 1503
Sunday, Oct 28, 8:30 am – HMNSS 1500
Professor Prasanta Pattanaik of UC Riverside is the leader in the multidisiciplinary fields of economics, philosophy, political science, and psychology. He is a Professor of Economics, a Carnegie Centenary Professor (2006), a Fellow of Econometric Society, a Fellow of U.N. Human Development and Capability Association, a Fellow of Public Choice Society, a holder of President’s Chair, University of California, a recipient of the Honorary Doctorate Award from various universities around the world, a recipient of MahaJanobis Memorial National Award, a recipient of Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award, UCR, and the President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, 2005-2007.
As an academic scholar, Prasanta Pattanaik has held Professorships at Harvard University, Oxford University, University of Delhi, La Trobe University, Australia, Southern Methodist University, Birmingham University, Hebrew Unjversity, Jerusalem, and University of California, Riverside. He has visited a large number of very prestigious universities and institutes on every continent. For almost two decades he has held the position of Associate Editor for Journal of Economic Theory, the top journal in economic theory. He is one of the founding editors of Social Choice on Welfare, the most prestigious and highly respected journal in his field. Furthermore, he has been a member of the editorial board of many prestigious technical journals covering wide areas in economics. He has published seven books and 100 articles in professional journals.
GUEST PRESENTER: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of many books, which have been translated into more than thirty languages and include: Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic Inequality (1973, 1997), Poverty and Famines (1981), On Ethics and Economics (1987), The Standard of Living (1987), Development as Freedom (1999), and Rationality and Freedom (2002), The Argumentative Indian (2005), and Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006), among others. His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war. Sen has received honorary doctorates from major universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Among the awards he has received are the “Bharat Ratna,” the Eisenhower Medal, The George C. Marshall Award, and the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Other paper presenters include: David Vazquez-Guzman (University of Stirling, Scotland), Matthew Jackson (Stanford University), Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick, U.K.), Kaushik Basu (Cornell University), Kotara Suzumura (Hitobashi University, Tokyo, Japan), Walter Bossert (University of Montreal, Canada), Yongsheng Xu (Georgia State University, Atlanta), Peter Hammond (Stanford University), Rajat Deb (Southern Methodist University), Indranil Dutta (Shefield University, U.K.), Antonio Romero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain), Thomas Schwartz (UCLA), Donald Saari (UC. Irvine), and many more distinguished scholars around the world.