Pranab Bardhan

Pranab Bardhan (born 11 September 1939 in Calcutta) is an Indian economist who has taught and worked in the United States since 1979. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Books in order of publication:

Land, labor, and rural poverty: essays in development economics. Delhi New York: Oxford University Press Columbia University Press – 1984

Conversations between economists and anthropologists : methodological issues in measuring economic change in rural India – 1989

The Economic theory of agrarian institutions. Oxford England New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press.  – 1989

The Economic theory of agrarian institutions – 1991

Market socialism: the current debate. New York: Oxford University Press. – 1993

The political economy of development in India (2nd ed.). Oxford, UK New York, New York, USA: Oxford University Press. – 1998

International trade, growth, and development : essays – 2003

Poverty, agrarian structure, and political economy in India: selected essays. New Delhi New York: Oxford University Press. – 2003

Scarcity, conflicts, and cooperation : essays in the political and institutional economics of development – 2005

Globalization and egalitarian redistribution. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. – 2006

Decentralization and local governance in developing countries a comparative perspective. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. – 2006

Inequality, cooperation, and environmental sustainability. New York Princeton: Russell Sage Foundation Princeton University Press. – 2007

Awakening giants, feet of clay assessing the economic rise of China and India. Princeton, New Jersey Woodstock: Princeton University Press. – 2013

Memory scratching. Calcutta: Ananda Publishers. (A memoir.) – 2014

A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries – 2022