Sudipta Sarangi
Professor & Department Head at the Department of Economics, Virginia Tech
Sudipta Sarangi is Professor & Department Head at the Department of Economics, Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was a Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at Louisiana State University and a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. He spent the 2023-24 academic year at the Collegium de Lyon as a Fellow of the French Institutes for Advanced Study. His research interests range from network theory, experimental and behavioral economics to development economics.
After obtaining his B.A. in Economics from the University of Delhi, and an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, Prof. Sarangi received his Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Tech.
He has been a consultant to organizations like the World Bank and FAO. Besides publishing in a wide range of journals, he currently serves on various editorial boards including journals like Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Oxford Open Economics and Economic Modelling. While he has published a number of academic books, his book The Economics of Small Things which explains economics using everyday phenomena aimed at non-economists was released by Penguin India in 2020.