Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. A part of his work is in the interdisciplinary area of economics, political science, and social anthropology. He was Chief Editor of the Journal of Development Economics for 1985-2003. He was the co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance for 1996-2007.
Pranab Bardhan usually teaches in the areas of international trade theory (Econ 280A) and runs both the graduate (Econ 271) and undergraduate (Econ 173) seminars in Economic Development.
A graduate-level textbook by Pranab Bardhan and Christopher Udry, Development Microconomics, Oxford University Press, was published in 1999. More information on the book may be found in the publisher's website: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-877371-4 In 2000 MIT Press published a two-volume Readings in Development Economics, edited by Bardhan and Udry. More information on the book may be found in the publisher's website: http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262024845
Two collections of his selected essays came out in 2003; one is International Trade, Growth and Development published by Blackwell; and the other, Poverty, Agrarian Structure, and Political Economy in India published by Oxford University Press. A new book, Scarcity, Conflicts and Cooperation: Essays in Political and Institutional Economics of Development , was published by MIT Press in 2005. A co-edited volume, Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution was published by Princeton University Press in 2006, followed by another co-edited volume, Inequality,Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability, also published by Princeton University Press in 2006. A co-edited volume, Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective was published by MIT Press in 2006.A co-edited volume, The Contested Commons: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists is to be published in 2008 by Blackwell.
In September 2000, Pranab Bardhan gave ILO's Nobel Peace Prize Lecture in Cape Town, South Africa, entitled " Social Justice in the Global Economy." (The lecture has been published by ILO, Geneva). Aspects of globalization and world poverty were also the themes of his Inaugural Max Corden Lecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in March 2003, and the first Luca d'Agliano Lecture in Development Economics in Turin, Italy, in June 2003, his Kalinga Lectures at the N.C. Centre for Development Studies in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 2005, TDPE Annual Distinguished Lecture at Syracuse University in April 2007, Fred J. Hansen Distinguished Lecture at San Diego State University in April 2007, and Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture at Presidency College, Calcutta in July 2007.
Political Economy and Governance Issues in the Indian Economic Reform Process was the theme of his K. R. Narayanan Lecture at the Australian National University, Canberra, in March 2003, his CSLG Distinguished Lecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in January 2006, his Brookings/NCAER India Policy Forum Public Lecture in New Delhi in July 2006, and his valedictory address at an international conference on Poverty at A.N.Sinha Institute at Patna in July 2007.
Institutional Economics of Development was the theme of his keynote Lecture at the CEPR/BREAD conference at Istanbul in June 2005, his opening Lecture at the CESIFO/BREAD conference at San Servolo, Italy in July 2006 and at a conference at University of Quebec, Montreal in February 2007, and the DEC Lecture at the World Bank in April 2007, and a plenary lecture at the 2007 Annual meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association at Bogota, Colombia.
The theme of his K.C. Basu Endowed Lecture at the National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, India in December 2004 was "Law and Economics in Developing Countries".
The topic of his Silver Jubilee Lecture at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, in January 2006 was the political economy of land reforms.
The topic of his keynote Lecture at the "Elephant-Dragon" Conference in Shanghai, China, in July 2006 was "A Comparative Assessment of the Rise of China and India";also at the University of Melbourne AEC Lecture in April 2007, and at the Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester in May 2007.
The topic of his keynote Lecture at the India Development Foundation conference in New Delhi in August 2006 was "Decentralized Governance".
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