Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment pdf

Il professor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (nato il 17 novembre 1942), FBA, FRS, è Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics presso l'Università di Cambridge, Regno Unito; Fellow del St John's College, Cambridge; membro onorario del Trinity College di Cambridge; e Professore di Economia ambientale e dello sviluppo presso l'Università di Manchester. Gli interessi di ricerca hanno riguardato il benessere e l'economia dello sviluppo; l'economia del cambiamento tecnologico; economia della popolazione, dell'ambiente e delle risorse; capitale sociale; la teoria dei giochi; e l'economia della malnutrizione. È nato a Dhaka, in Bangladesh, poi in India, ed è figlio del noto economista A.K. Dasgupta. È sposato con Carol Dasgupta, psicoterapeuta. Hanno tre figli, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (psicologo dell'educazione), Shamik (professore di filosofia) e Aisha (che si occupa di salute riproduttiva nei paesi poveri).

Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment pdf da 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.