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Pankaj Tandon

How to reach me:

Department of Economics
Boston University
270 Bay State Road, Room 526
Boston, MA 02215

Telephone: (617) 353-3089
e-mail: ptandon@bu.edu

My Office Hours:
Tue 11:15-12:45, Thu 11:45-1:15


COURSE INFORMATION:

           EC 501

SOME BACKGROUND:

          Ph.D., Harvard University. Thesis: Aspects of Optimal R&D Policy.

RESEARCH FIELDS:

         Numismatics and Ancient Indian History,  Technological Change, Microeconomic Theory, Public Enterprise, Economic Development

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

         BOOKS

         Microeconomic Theory: An Intermediate Text, Routledge, 2025 (published, 2024).

         A Textbook of Microeconomic Theory, Sage Publications, 2015.

         The Welfare Consequences of Selling Public Enterprises (with A. Galal, L. P. Jones, and I. Vogelsang), Oxford University Press, 1994.

         Selling Public Enterprises: A Cost-Benefit Methodology (with L. P. Jones and I. Vogelsang), MIT Press, 1990.

         ARTICLES

         "Efficiency of Privatised Firms: Evidence and Implications," Economic and Political Weekly, December 1997.

         "Divestiture and Deregulation: The Case of Mexico's Airlines," in Ravi Ramamurti (ed.): Privatizing Monopolies, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1996.

         "Welfare Effects of Privatization: Some Evidence from Mexico," Boston University International Law Journal, Fall 1995.

         "A Note on Optimal Pricing of Publicly Produced Intermediate Inputs," Atlantic Economic Journal, September 1989.

         "Innovation, Market Structure and Welfare," American Economic Review, June 1984.

         "Rivalry and the Excessive Allocation of Resources to Research," Bell Journal of Economics, Spring 1983.

         "Optimal Patents with Compulsory Licensing," Journal of Political Economy, June 1982.

Full CV


MY NUMISMATIC WEBSITE:

          



MY NUMISMATIC PUBLICATIONS:

         Women on South Asian Coins, in Vladimir Belyaev, et. al. (eds.): Zeno Festschrift: Articles devoted to the 20th Anniversary of the ZENO.RU International Project, Moscow, (published online 2024, print forthcoming).

         The Kushan Pantheon and the Significance of the Kushan Goddess Nana, in the Light of New Numismatic Evidence of Iconography and Identity (with Joe Cribb and Aman ur Rahman, Journal Asiatique, Vol. 311 No. 2, 2023, pp. 247-266.

         A Hoard of Kushan Gold Coins from Swabi, in Helen Wang and Robert Bracey (eds.): Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023 pp. 128-146.

         An Analysis of the Gold Content in Gupta Gold Coins, in Patrick Pasmans and Jan Lingen (eds.): Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Ellen Raven, Numismatic Society of Diest, Numismatic Studies No. 5, 2023, pp. 31-58.

         The Evidence of Gold Content for the Attribution of the Coins in the Name of Candragupta, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, Vol. 250, Winter 2022, pp. 33-43.

         Research on the Guptas and (Iranian) Huns, 2014-2020, in M. Alram, J. Bodzek and A. Bursche (eds.): Survey of Numismatic Research, 2014-2020, International Numismatic Council, Winterthur: Warsaw, Krakow 2022, pp. 979-983.

         Book Review: The Alkhan: A Hunnic People in South Asia by Hans T. Bakker, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, Vol. 248, Summer 2022, pp. 29-30.

         Book Review: Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History ed. Dániel Balogh, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, Vol. 248, Summer 2022, pp. 28-29.

         Are these the earliest Greek Coins of Bactria?, Revue Numismatique, Vol. 178, 2021, pp. 3-24.

         The Paratarajas, Chapter 16 in Wilfried Pieper: Ancient Indian Coins: A Comprehensive Catalogue, Nasik: IIRNS Publications, 2021, pp. 523-538.

         Reattributing some (more) Coins of Candragupta II to Candragupta III, The Numismatic Chronicle 180, 2020, pp. 361-392.

         Tentative Reading of an unread Parataraja Coin, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 240, Summer 2020, pp. 5-7.

         The Coins and History of Toramana, in Touraj Daryaee and Judith A. Lerner with Virginie Rey (eds.) Dinars and Dirhams: Festschrift in Honor of Michael L. Bates, University of California at Irvine, Jordan Center for Persian Studies, 2020, pp. 269-282.

         Bilingual Coins of Sulayman: A Samid Amir of Medieval Multan (with Bilal Ahmed and Shailendra Bhandare, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 239, Spring 2020, pp. 15-18.

         Two Newly-Identified Hun Kings and a Hoard from Pushkalavati, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 237, Autumn 2019, pp. 8-12.

         New Evidence on Parataraja Chronology, Numismatic Digest, Volume 42, 2018(published, 2019), pp. 35-42.

         Book Review: Treasure, Trade and Tradition by John S. Deyell, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 29, No. 1, January 2019, pp. 188-190.

         Attribution of the Nameless Coins of the Archer Type, The Numismatic Chronicle, 178 (2018), pp. 247-268.

         A New Coin of Amyntas and Some Apollophanes Forgeries, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 231, Spring 2018, pp. 5-7.

         The Bahmani "Currency Reform" of the Early Fifteenth Century in Light of the Akola Hoard (with Phillip B. Wagoner), American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 29, 2017 (published July 2018), pp. 227-268.

         Coins of the Eastern Gangas ruler Anantavarman Chodaganga, Numismatic Digest, Vol. 41, 2017 (published June 2018), pp. 91-96.

         New Evidence on the Date of Candragupta III, Numismatic Digest, Vol. 40, 2016, pp. 67-77.

         Some New Coin Types from Surasena, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 227, Spring 2016, pp. 6-7.

         On the Unique Dated Tetradrachm of Antiochus I, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 226, Winter 2016, pp. 7-9.

         Abhimanyu: A Newly Identified Hun King, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 225, Autumn 2015, pp. 29-30.

         Book Review: Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Kidarite Coins: A Catalogue of Coins from the American Numismatic Society by David Jongeward and Joe Cribb with Peter Donovan, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 225, Autumn 2015, pp. 10-11.

         The Identity of Prakasaditya, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 25, No. 4, October 2015, pp. 647-668.

         Sculptural Parallels in the Coinage of Vijayanagar, Studies in South Indian Coins, Vol. XXV, 2015, pp. 129-139.

         The Coins of Purugupta, Numismatic Digest, Vol. 38, 2014, pp. 88-117.

         Two New Types of Kushan Forgeries, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 221, Autumn 2014, pp. 21-22.

         The Succession after Kumaragupta I, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 24, No. 4, October 2014, pp. 557-572.

         How to read the legends on coins of the Western Kshatrapas: A Beginner's Guide, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 220, Summer 2014, pp. 43-47.

         An Enigmatic Coin from Mewar, Numismatic Digest, Vol. 36-37, 2012-13 (published 2014), pp. 138-145.

         Horseman Coins of Candragupta III, Numismatic Chronicle, 173 (2013), pp 171-185.

         Notes on the Evolution of Alchon Coins, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 216, Summer 2013, pp. 24-34.

         Tentative Attributions of some gold fanams of the Eastern Gangas, Numismatic Digest, Vol. 34-35, 2010-11 (published 2012), pp. 78-100.

         The Lion Conqueror Type of Kumaragupta I, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 212, Summer 2012, pp. 22-23.

         The Location and Kings of Paradan, Studia Iranica, Volume 41, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 25-56.

         The Crowns on Kanishka's Bronze Coins and Some Additional Shiva Images on Kushan Coins, in Shailendra Bhandare and Sanjay Garg (eds.): Felicitas: Essays in Numismatics, Epigraphy and History in Honour of Joe Cribb, Mumbai: Reesha Books International, 2011.

         A Simple Two Mint Model for Western Kshatrapa Coinage, Numismatic Digest, Vols. 32-33, 2008-09 (published 2011), pp. 33-78.

         A Hoard of Kushan Coins from Mingora, Numismatic Chronicle 170, Coin Hoards, 2010, pp. 427-431.

         The Coins of the Paratarajas: A Synthesis, Supplement to the Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society 205: A Seminar on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Numismatic Society of India, Autumn 2010, pp. 15-31.

         A Spate of New, Tooled Forgeries of Kushan and Parataraja Coins," Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 204 (Summer 2010), pp. 17-20.

         Fifty Coins in 2,500 years: A Numismatic Walk through Indian History, The Celator, Part I: July 2010, Part II: August 2010.

         The Channapatna plates: A new set of copper plates of the Western Gangas (with Andrea Schlosser), Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, Band 26 (2009), pp. 219-247.

         The Western Kshatrapa Damazada, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 169 (2009), pp. 173-187.

         Further Light on the Paratarajas: An Absolute Chronology of the Brahmi and Kharoshthi Series, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 169 (2009), pp. 137-171.

         Isvaradeva: A New Western Kshatrapa King, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 201 (Autumn 2009), pp. 10-11.

         An Important New Copper Coin of Gadahara, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 200 (Summer 2009), p. 17-20.

         Pracandendra, not Pracatunde: An Improved Reading of Some Coins of the Yashaaditya Series, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 197 (Autumn 2008), p. 30.

         More Early Medieval Portrait Coins of the Yashaaditya Series, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 195 (Spring 2008), pp. 17-23.

         Some Unlisted Coins of the Bengal Presidency, Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society, No. 194 (Winter 2008), pp. 37-38.

         Some Magadha Series I overstrikes from Sasaram, Numismatic Digest, Volume 31 (2007), pp. 17-45.

         A Gold Coin of the Pala king Dharmapala, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 166, 2006, pp. 327-333.

         New Light on the Paratarajas, Numismatic Chronicle, No. 166, 2006, pp. 173-209.

         "Suktimati: A New Coin and History of the City-State," (with Prashant P. Kulkarni), Indian Coin Society Newsletter , No. 32, April 2004.

         "Some New Coin Types of the Kushan King Kanishka II," Oriental Numismatic Society Newsletter, No. 172, Summer 2002.


Last update: February 2023


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