Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet 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).

Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet pdf par Partha Dasgupta

How should we evaluate the ethics of procreation, especially the environmental consequences of reproductive decisions on future generations, in a resource-constrained world? While demographers, moral philosophers, and environmental scientists have separately discussed the implications of population size for sustainability, no one has attempted to synthesize the concerns and values of these approaches. The culmination of a half century of engagement with population ethics, Partha Dasgupta’s masterful Time and the Generations blends economics, philosophy, and ecology to offer an original lens on the difficult topic of optimum global population. After offering careful attention to global inequality and the imbalance of power between men and women, Dasgupta provides tentative answers to two fundamental questions: What level of economic activity can our planet support over the long run, and what does the answer say about optimum population numbers? He develops a population ethics that can be used to evaluate our choices and guide our sense of a sustainable global population and living standards. Structured around a central essay from Dasgupta, the book also features a foreword from Robert Solow; correspondence with Kenneth Arrow; incisive commentaries from Joseph Stiglitz, Eric Maskin, and Scott Barrett; an extended response by the author to them; and a joint paper with Aisha Dasgupta on inequalities in reproductive decisions and the idea of reproductive rights. Taken together, Time and the Generations represents a fascinating dialogue between world-renowned economists on a central issue of our time.