El profesor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (nacido el 17 de noviembre de 1942), FBA, FRS, es el Profesor Frank Ramsey de Economía en la Universidad de Cambridge, Reino Unido; miembro del St John's College de Cambridge; miembro honorario del Trinity College, Cambridge; y profesor de Economía Ambiental y del Desarrollo en la Universidad de Manchester. Los intereses de investigación han abarcado la economía del bienestar y el desarrollo; la economía del cambio tecnológico; economía demográfica, ambiental y de recursos; capital social; la teoría de los juegos; y la economía de la desnutrición.
Nació en Dhaka, Bangladesh, luego en India, y es hijo del destacado economista A.K. Dasgupta. Está casado con Carol Dasgupta, quien es psicoterapeuta. Tienen tres hijos, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (psicóloga educativa), Shamik (profesora de filosofía) y Aisha (que trabaja en salud reproductiva en países pobres).
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution pdf por Partha Dasgupta
How should economic and social theory accommodate empirical facts about physical destitution, and how should governments respond to famines and hunger? This interdisciplinary book focuses on these and other questions about physical being. Dasgupta's aim here is to offer a description of destitution as it occurs among rural populations of the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America; to give an account of the forces at work which perpetuate destitution, and to offer prescriptions for both the public and private spheres of life.A central concern of the author has been to reconcile theoretical considerations with the empirical evidence that has been obtained in the several disciplines this work encompasses, including anthropology, demography, ecology, geography, and philosophy. The entire discussion is designed to provide a philosophy for human well-being that can guide public policy in poor countries. Therefore, the role of the State, of communities, of households, and of individuals is studied in considerable detail.The author reveals an empirical link between greater political and civil liberties and improvements in life expectancy at birth, national income per capita, and infant survival rates. He identifies patterns of asset redistribution that promote economic growth by raising labor productivity, and argues that democratic participation in the design of public policies is not only intrinsically valuable, but has strong instrumental virtues: it allows privately held information to be put into effective use. Dasgupta presents evidence to show that significant reductions in military budgets would free the resources needed for the satisfaction of citizens' basic economic needs, and he provides guidance for the motivation and necessary focus of governments. He also looks at the allocation of food, work, health care, education, and income across genders, age groups, and orders of birth. He explores the findings of nutritionists on the link between food needs and work capacity, and develops a language to allow the environment to be included in social policies and calculations. By covering an unprecedented range of material, An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution becomes required reading for all those concerned with the human situation and the plight of the destitute.