Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment pdf

帕塔达斯古普塔 爵士教授（1942 年 11 月 17 日出生），FBA，FRS，是英国剑桥大学的 Frank Ramsey 经济学教授； 剑桥圣约翰学院院士； 剑桥大学三一学院荣誉院士； 曼彻斯特大学环境与发展经济学教授。 研究兴趣涵盖福利和发展经济学； 技术变革的经济学； 人口、环境和资源经济学； 社会资本; 博弈论； 和营养不良的经济学。 他出生在孟加拉国的达卡，然后在印度出生，是著名经济学家 A.K. 达斯古普塔。 他与心理治疗师卡罗尔·达斯古普塔（Carol Dasgupta）结婚。 他们有三个孩子，Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark（教育心理学家）、Shamik（哲学教授）和 Aisha（从事贫困国家生殖健康研究）。

Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment pdf 帕塔达斯古普塔

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.