Prabhat patnaik biography of michael

Indian economist (born 1945)

Prabhat Patnaik (born September 19, 1945) is an Indian Marxian economist^[1] and political commentator.^[2][3] He taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, from 1974 until his retirement in 2010.^[4] He was the vice-chairman of Kerala State Planning Board from June 2006 to May 2011.^[5]

Early life and education

Patnaik was born on 19 September 1945 in Jatni, Odisha.

His father was the communist leader and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), Prananath Patnaik.

Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present

Prabhat, after his early schooling in his hometown, studied at the Daly College, Indore on a Government of India Merit Scholarship. He passed his B.A. with Economics Honours from the St. Stephen's College, Delhi, ranking first in the first class. Afterwards, he went to University of Oxford in 1966 on a Rhodes Scholarship and studied Super-imperialism - Wikipedia RIX