Partha Dasgupta

Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta ( born November 17, 1942 in Dhaka, then India, now Bangladesh) is an economist.

Life and work

Partha Dasgupta was born as the son of Professor Amiya Dasgupta and Dasgupta Shanti. In 1962, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Delhi. He then went to the University of Cambridge, where in 1965 he received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Ph.D. in 1968 received his doctorate in economics. Until 1971, he still did research at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before he moved to the London School of Economics. He was from 1971 to 1975 Lecturer, 1975-1978 and Reader 1978-1984 Professor of Economics. Since 1985 he has been a member of St John 's College, professor of economics at the University of Cambridge. 1997 to 2001 he was dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science. In addition, he was from 1989 to 1992 Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Stanford University. Guest professorships led him to the Carnegie Mellon University (1968-1969), Delhi School of Economics (1970-1971), Stanford University (1974-1975 and 1983-1984), Jawaharlal Nehru University (1978), University of Delhi (1981 ), Harvard University ( 1987), Princeton University (1988 ), London School of Economics (2003), Cornell University ( 2007 - Andrew D. White Professor -at -Large), University of Copenhagen (2008 - Honorary Professor of Environmental Economics ), University of Manchester (2008 - Professor of environmental and development Economics ).

Dasgupta research in the areas of environmental economics, ecological economics, welfare economics, development economics, resource economics, economics of technological change, population and malnutrition, but also to unemployment, poverty, growth theory, sustainability, game theory, control and trade, justice, and political theory.

In 1968 he married Carol Margaret Meade, the daughter of James Edward Meade. With it, he has a son and two daughters.

Awards

Memberships

Works

Dasgupta has published more than 200 scientific papers.

  • With Stephen A. Marglin and Amartya K. Sen: Guidelines for Project Evaluation. United Nations, New York 1972.
  • Geoffrey M. Heal: Economic Theory and exhaustible resources. Cambridge University Press [ua ] Cambridge [ua ] 1979, ISBN 0-7202-0313-9.
  • An Inquiry into Well- Being and Destitution. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993, ISBN 0-19-828756-9.
  • Human Well- Being and the Natural Environment. Oxford University Press, Oxford [ua ] 2001, ISBN 0-19-924788-9.
  • Economics. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford [ua ] 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-285345-5; German as: the world economy. A small introduction ( = Loeb Classical Library, Volume 18572 ). Reclam, Ditzingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-018572-8
  • Povertà, Ambiente e Societa. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007, ISBN 9788815112804 ( Collected Essays in Italian translation )
  • With Yusuf J. Ahmad and Karl- Göran Mäler: Environmental Decision-Making. Hodder and Stoughton, London 1984, ISBN 0-340-34301- X.
  • With Ken Binmore: Economic Organizations as Games. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986, ISBN 0-631-14255- X.
  • With Ken Binmore: The Economics of Bargaining. Basil Blackwell, Oxford [ua ], 1987, ISBN 0-631-14254-1.
  • Paul Stoneman: Economic Policy and Technological Performance. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987, ISBN 0-521-34555-3.
  • Issues in Contemporary Economics. Volume 3: Policy and Development. ( = Publications of the International Economic Association, Vol 100). Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire [ua ], 1991, ISBN 0-333-52479-9.
  • With Douglas Gale, Oliver Hart, and Eric S. Maskin: Economic Analysis of Markets and Games. Essays in Honor of Frank Hahn. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.. [ inter alia ] In 1992, ISBN 0-262-04127-8.
  • Karl- Göran Mäler: The Environment and Emerging Development Issues. 2 volumes, Clarendon Press, Oxford [u a ] In 1997, ISBN 0-19-828767-4, ISBN 0-19-828768-2.
  • Karl- Göran Mäler and Alessandro Vercelli: The Economics of Transnational Commons. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-829220-1.
  • With Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Karl- Göran Mäler and Domenico Siniscalco: Creation and Transfer of Knowledge. Springer, Berlin [ et al ] 1998, ISBN 3-540-64426-1.
  • Ismail Serageldin with: Social Capital. A Multifaceted Perspective. World Bank, Washington, D.C. 1999, ISBN 0-8213-4562-1
  • With Bengt Kriström and Karl- Gustaf Löfgren: Economic Theory of the Environment. Essays in Honour of Karl- Göran Mäler. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham [ua ] 2002, ISBN 1-8406-4887-2.
  • Karl- Göran Mäler: The Economics of Non- Convex Ecosystems ( = Environmental & resource economics, Volume 26 (2003), No. 4). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht [ua ] 2003.
  • On the Concept of Optimum Population. In: Review of Economic Studies. Volume 36, No. 107, July 1969, pp. 295-318
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz: Benefit - Cost Analysis and Trade Policies. In: Journal of Political Economy. Volume 82, No. 1, January-February 1974, p 1-33
  • On Some Alternative Criteria for Justice Between Generations. in: Journal of Public Economics. Volume 3, November 1974, pp. 405-423.
  • Geoffrey M. Heal: The optimal depletion of exhaustible resources. In: Review of Economic Studies. Volume 41, 1979, pp. 3-28.
  • With Peter J. Hammond and Eric S. Maskin: The implementation of social choice rules. In: Review of Economic Studies. Volume 46, 1979, pp. 185-216.
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz: Uncertainty, Industrial Structure and the Speed ​​of R & D. in: Bell Journal of Economics. Volume 11, January 1980, pp. 1-28.
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz: Industrial Structure and the Nature of Innovative Activity. In: Economic Journal. Volume 90, June 1980, pp. 266-293.
  • Utilitarianism, Information and Rights. In: Amartya K. Sen and Bernard Williams ( eds.): Utilitarianism and Beyond. Cambridge University Press, 1982, ISBN 0-521-24296-7.
  • Resource Depletion, Research and Development and the Social Rate of Discount. In: Robert C. Lind (ed.): Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1982, ISBN 0-8018-2709-4, pp. 273-305; in: R. Layard and S. Glaister (eds.): Cost - Benefit Analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [ua ] 1994, ISBN 0-521-46128-6.
  • With Richard J. Gilbert and Joseph E. Stiglitz: Strategic Considerations in Invention and Innovation. The Case of Natural Resources. In: Econometrica. Volume 51, No. 5, 1983, pp. 1439-1448.
  • With Kenneth Arrow et al.: Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment. In: Science. Volume 268, 1995, pp. 520-521.
  • Karl- Göran Mäler: Net national product, wealth and social well-being. In: Environment and Development Economics. Volume 5, 2000, pp. 69-93.
  • With Kenneth Arrow et al.: Are We Consuming Too Much? In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives. Volume 18, No. 3, 2004, pp. 147-172.
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