Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment pdf

Le professeur Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (né le 17 novembre 1942), FBA, FRS, est professeur d'économie Frank Ramsey à l'Université de Cambridge, Royaume-Uni ; Membre du St John's College, Cambridge; membre honoraire du Trinity College de Cambridge ; et professeur d'économie de l'environnement et du développement à l'Université de Manchester. Les intérêts de recherche ont couvert l'économie du bien-être et du développement; l'économie du changement technologique; économie de la population, de l'environnement et des ressources; capital social; la théorie des jeux; et l'économie de la malnutrition. Il est né à Dhaka, au Bangladesh, puis en Inde, et est le fils du célèbre économiste A.K. Dasgupta. Il est marié à Carol Dasgupta, psychothérapeute. Ils ont trois enfants, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (psychologue de l'éducation), Shamik (professeur de philosophie) et Aisha (qui travaille sur la santé reproductive dans les pays pauvres).

Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment pdf par 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.