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Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian economist and political commentator, who has achieved international acclaim with his incisive analyses of economics and politics. He is a professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Planning Board of the Indian state of Kerala.

Prabhat Patnaik was born in Jatni in Orissa in September 1945 and after early schooling in his home town, studied at Daly College, Indore, on a Government of India Merit Scholarship.

He passed his B.A. with Economics Honours from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

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He went to Oxford University in 1966 on a Rhode’s scholarship and studied at Balliol College and later at Nuffield College. He obtained his B.Phil and his D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University.

He joined the Faculty of Economics and Politics of the University of Cambridge, UK in 1969 and was elected a Fellow of Clare College, Cambri