Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment PDF

Professor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (geboren am 17. November 1942), FBA, FRS, ist Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics an der University of Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich; Stipendiat des St. John's College, Cambridge; Ehrenmitglied des Trinity College, Cambridge; und Professor für Umwelt- und Entwicklungsökonomie an der University of Manchester. Forschungsinteressen umfassten Wohlfahrts- und Entwicklungsökonomie; die Ökonomie des technologischen Wandels; Bevölkerungs-, Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie; Sozialkapital; die Theorie der Spiele; und die Ökonomie der Mangelernährung. Er wurde in Dhaka, Bangladesch, dann in Indien geboren und ist der Sohn des bekannten Ökonomen A.K. Dasgupta. Er ist mit Carol Dasgupta, einer Psychotherapeutin, verheiratet. Sie haben drei Kinder, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (eine pädagogische Psychologin), Shamik (eine Philosophieprofessorin) und Aisha (die sich mit reproduktiver Gesundheit in armen Ländern beschäftigt).

Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment pdf von Partha Dasgupta

In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to measure the quality of life. In developing quality of life indices, he pays particular attention to the natuaral environment, illustrating how it can be incorporated, more generally, into economic reasoning in a seamless manner. Such familiar terms as sustainable development, social discount rates, and Earth's carrying capacity are given a firm theoretical underpinning. The author shows that, whether we are interested in valuing the state of affairs in a country or in evaluating economic policy there. The index that should be used is the economy's wealth, which is the social worth of its capital assets. Dasgupta puts the theory he develops to use in extended commentaries on the economics of population, poverty traps, global warming, structural adjustment programs, and free trade, particularly in relation to poor countries. The result is a treatise that goes beyond quality-of-life measures and offers a comprehensive account of the newly emergent subject of ecological economics. With the publication of this new paperback edition, Dasgupta has taken the opportunity to update and revise his text in a number of ways, including developments to facilitate its current use on a number of graduate courses in environmental and resource economics. The treatment of the welfare economics of imperfect economies has been developed using new findings, and the appendix has been expanded to include applications of the theory to a number of institutions and to develop approximate formulae for estimating the value of environmental natural resources.