Partha Dasgupta

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Partha Dasgupta

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

Live and act

Partha Dasgupta was born to Amiya Dasgupta and Shanti Dasgupta. In 1962 he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Delhi . He then went to the University of Cambridge , where he received his Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in 1965 and a Ph.D. PhD in economics . Until 1971 he did research at Trinity Hall , Cambridge, before he switched to the London School of Economics . There he was lecturer from 1971 to 1975 , reader from 1975 to 1978 and professor of economics from 1978 to 1984. Since 1985 he has been a member of St John's College Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge. From 1997 to 2001 he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science. In addition, he was Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Stanford University from 1989 to 1992 . Visiting professorships led him to 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 ). He is a fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics .

Dasgupta conducts research in the areas of environmental economics , ecological economics , welfare economics , development economics , resource economics, economics of technological change, population and malnutrition , but also on unemployment , poverty , growth theory , sustainability , game theory , tax and trade , justice and state theory . He is the author (together with Geoffrey Heal) of Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources (1979), one of the most important overviews of resource economics. Since around 2000 he has been doing intensive research with, among others, Kenneth Arrow on the subject of welfare measurement and sustainability ( comprehensive wealth ). He also participated in the debate sparked by the Stern Report on social discounting in the context of climate change. In March 2019, Dasgupta's leadership initiated the development of a report on the economics of biodiversity, which was named in reference to the Stern report The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review .

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

Awards

Memberships

Works

Dasgupta published more than 200 scientific papers .

Books
  • with Stephen A. Marglin and Amartya K. Sen : Guidelines for Project Evaluation. United Nations, New York 1972.
  • with Geoffrey M. Heal: Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources. Cambridge University Press et al., Cambridge et al. 1979, ISBN 0-7202-0313-9 .
  • The Control of Resources. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1982, ISBN 0-674-16980-8 .
  • 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 [et al.] 2001, ISBN 0-19-924788-9 .
  • Economics. A very short introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford [et al.] 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-285345-5 ; German as: Die Weltwirtschaft. A short introduction (Reclam's Universal Library, Volume 18572). Reclam, Ditzingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-018572-8
  • Poverta, Ambiente e Societa. Il Mulino, Bologna 2007, ISBN 9788815112804 (Collected articles in Italian translation)
  • The Collected Scientific Papers of Partha Dasgupta. Volume 1: Institutions, Innovations, and Human Values. Volume 2: Poverty, Population, and Natural Resources. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-956151-3 (both volumes).
Editing
  • 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 [and a.] 1987, ISBN 0-631-14254-1 .
  • with 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, Volume 100). Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire [et. a.] 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. [u. a.] 1992, ISBN 0-262-04127-8 .
  • with Karl-Göran Mäler: The Environment and Emerging Development Issues. 2 volumes, Clarendon Press, Oxford [ua] 1997, ISBN 0-19-828767-4 , ISBN 0-19-828768-2 .
  • with 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 [a. a.] 1998, ISBN 3-540-64426-1 .
  • with Ismail Serageldin : Social Capital. A Multifaceted Perspective. World Bank, Washington DC 1999, ISBN 0-8213-4562-1
  • with Bengt Kriström and Karl-Gustaf Löfgren: Economic Theory for the Environment. Essays in Honor of Karl-Göran Mäler. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 2002, ISBN 1-8406-4887-2 .
  • with Karl-Göran Mäler: The Economics of Non-Convex Ecosystems (= Environmental & Resource Economics, Volume 26 (2003), No. 4). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht [u. a.] 2003.
Article (selection)
  • On the Concept of Optimum Population. In: Review of Economic Studies. Volume 36, No. 107, July 1969, pp. 295-318
  • with Joseph E. Stiglitz : Benefit-Cost Analysis and Trade Policies. In: Journal of Political Economy. Volume 82, No. 1, January-February 1974, pp. 1-33
  • On Some Alternative Criteria for Justice Between Generations. In: Journal of Public Economics. Volume 3, November 1974, pp. 405-423.
  • with 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.
  • with Joseph E. Stiglitz: Uncertainty, Industrial Structure and the Speed ​​of R&D. in: Bell Journal of Economics. Volume 11, January 1980, pp. 1-28.
  • with 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; also in: R. Layard and S. Glaister (eds.): Cost-Benefit Analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u. a.] 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.
  • with 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.
Appreciations
  • Scott Barrett, Karl-Göran Mäler, Eric S. Maskin: Environment and Development Economics: Essays in Honor of Sir Partha Dasgupta . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-967785-6 .

literature

  • Who's Who 2008. 160th Edition, A&C Black, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8 , p. 566
  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics . 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , p. 276
  • The International Who's Who 1997-98. 61st edition, Europa Publications Limited, London 1997, ISBN 1-85743-022-0 , p. 356

Web links

Commons : Partha Dasgupta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review. Retrieved May 10, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Dasgupta, Partha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dasgupta, Partha Sarathi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dhaka