Partha Dasgupta
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3588005 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Partha Dasgupta |
| PRENOMES | Partha |
| SOBRENOME | Dasgupta |
| ASSINATURA | DASGUPTA P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 92 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 599 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Human Population and the Biosphere
The neglect of population in national and international discourses on environment and development has led to a misleading picture of policy options. This article reconstructs the language in which extreme poverty and economic development are discussed by deploying recent advances in our understanding of the population-consumption-biosphere nexus. The new perspective is applied to examine both the global environmental impact and the effects on loc…
Sustainable matrix beyond GDP
Measuring a country’s sustainable development by its gross domestic product (GDP) is insufficient to capture the loss of capital that determines future human welfare. To address this, we propose the inclusive wealth index, which integrates biophysical quantities and monetary values of natural, human, and produced capital. We analyzed the level of Inclusive Wealth in 163 countries over the past 30 years to assess sustainable development goals (SDG…
Population Overshoot
Externalities are the unaccounted-for consequences for others of actions taken by one or more persons. They are symptoms of institutional failure, which is why they cannot be eliminated without collective action. When externalities are adverse, the moral directives flowing from them can clash with the exercise of personal rights. In this paper we identify a class of environmental externalities in the contemporary world that accompany procreation.…
Introduction
Undoubtedly, many of the most pressing problems of our age relate to changes in human population. Population growth and demographic transition are having profound social (Lutz, 2014), economic (Sin
The inclusive wealth index and sustainable development goals
Addressing our planetary crisis
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity…
Narrow Identities
A person's social identity has many facets, involving language, personal interests, customs, religion, and ethnicity, among other attributes. Yet, all over the world many people seek to define themselves in exclusive terms. This paper develops a simple model of personal incentives and group interests to offer one possible explanation for the puzzle.
Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights
We review a class of adverse environmental externalities that accompany consumption and procreation.We also identify externalities that are traceable to socially embedded preferences for family size.Those preference structures can give rise to a heightened demand for children, exacerbating the environmental externalities households impose on future generations.Our analysis exposes weaknesses in basing family planning programmes entirely on indivi…
Pursuit of the common good
Religious institutions may mobilize public opinion and action
Pricing climate change
In developing the basis on which climate change should be priced, I do five things. First, I review the ethical foundations for valuing future consumption relative to present consumption (i.e. social discount rates). Second, I report that the criterion for both assessing and prescribing economic policies should not be an economy's GDP, but an inclusive measure of an economy's wealth adjusted for the distribution of wealth. Third, I apply the resu…
Creation and Transfer of Knowledge
National Wealth
Sustainability and the measurement of wealth
We develop and apply a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining wellbeing over time. Our approach differs from earlier approaches by concentrating on wealth rather than income. Sustainability is demonstrated by showing that a properly defined comprehensive measure of wealth is maintained through time. Our wealth measure is unusually comprehensive, capturing not only rep…
On biodiversity conservation and poverty traps
This paper introduces a special feature on biodiversity conservation and poverty traps. We define and explain the core concepts and then identify four distinct classes of mechanisms that define important interlinkages between biodiversity and poverty. The multiplicity of candidate mechanisms underscores a major challenge in designing policy appropriate across settings. This framework is then used to introduce the ensuing set of papers, which empi…
Conspicuous Consumption, Inconspicuous Leisure
It is commonly argued that because relative consumption appears to matter to people, they must be involved in a 'rat race': people work harder and consume more than they would have were optimum public policies in place. But although consuming more today would improve one's relative consumption now, it would worsen one's relative consumption in the future. In this article we identify the structure of felicity functions for which the two effects of…
Discounting climate change
The idea of sustainable development
Economics of Social Capital
The literature on the idea of ‘social capital’ is now enormous. Offering an alternative to impersonal markets and coercive states, the communitarian institutions built around social capital have looked attractive to scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The literature in consequence has a warm glow to it. In this article, I first study the various contexts in which the promises people make to one another are credible and then suggest th…
Regarding Optimum Population
Are We Consuming Too Much
This paper articulates and applies frameworks for examining whether consumption is excessive. We consider two criteria for the possible excessiveness (or insufficiency) of current consumption. One is an intertemporal utility-maximization criterion: actual current consumption is deemed excessive if it is higher than the level of current consumption on the consumption path that maximizes the present discounted value of utility. The other is a susta…
Economic Theory for the Environment
Political Philosophy
This article reports on a conversation convened by Quentin Skinner at the invitation of the Editors of The Journal of Political Philosophy and held in Cambridge on 13 February 2001
Population, Consumption, and Environment
Population, Consumption, and Environment
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding to such change for global sustainability and resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of the current situation where people and nature are dynamically intertwined and embedded in the biosphere, placing shocks and extreme events as part of this dynamic; humanity…
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
This book deals comprehensively with the problem of poverty and undernourishment, and addresses the debate over methods of estimating their incidence. It is an analytical and empirical inquiry into human well‐being and the phenomenon of destitution as it occurs among rural populations of the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. A central concern has been to reconcile theoretical considerations with empirical work in several discipli…
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment
Journal Article Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Theory Get access Partha Dasgupta, Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Debraj Ray Debraj Ray Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, and Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 384, 1 December 1986, Pages 1…
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment
This paper explores the policy implications that are obtained once it is recognized that at low nutrition intakes a person's productivity is an increasing function of intake. In the context of a fully general equilibrium model it is shown that if aggregate assets in an economy are neither large nor small, certain patterns of Lorenz improving asset redistributions (or nutrition transfers) increase aggregate output and reduce the volume of involunt…
Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment
Nat iona l and international economic policy has usually ignored the environment. In areas where the environment is beginning to impinge on policy, as in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it remains a tangential concern, and the presumption is often made that economic growth and economic liberalization (including the liberalization of intemational trade) are, in some sense, good…
Industrial Structure and the Nature of Innovative Activity
In this paper we attempt to provide an analytical framework relating market structure to the nature of inventive activity. In doing so we have come to modify this neo-Schumpeterian view in a fundamental way. We shall argue that except in the short run both market structure and the nature of inventive activity are endogenous; that the degree of concentration in an industry ought not to be treated as given, as it recently has been in the industrial…
On measuring the quality of life
Well-Being and the Extent of its Realisation in Poor Countries
Journal Article Well-Being and the Extent of its Realisation in Poor Countries Get access Partha Dasgupta Partha Dasgupta Stanford University, University of Cambridge and World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 400, 1 April 1990, Pages 1–32, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234181 Published: 01 April 1990
Are We Consuming Too Much
This paper articulates and applies frameworks for examining whether consumption is excessive. We consider two criteria for the possible excessiveness (or insufficiency) of current consumption. One is an intertemporal utility-maximization criterion: actual current consumption is deemed excessive if it is higher than the level of current consumption on the consumption path that maximizes the present discounted value of utility. The other is a susta…
Discounting for time and risk in energy policy
Population and Resources
This article identifies four types of social externalities associated with fertility behavior. Three are shown to be pronatalist in their effects. These three are exemplified by the way theories of economic growth treat fertility and natural resources, the way population growth and economic stress in poor countries are seen by environmental and resource economists, and the way development economists accommodate environmental stress in their analy…
The Simple Economics of Research Portfolios
Journal Article The Simple Economics of Research Portfolios Get access Partha Dasgupta, Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Maskin Eric Maskin Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 387, 1 September 1987, Pages 581–595, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232925 Published: 01 September …
Benefit-Cost Analysis and Trade Policies
This paper extends the theory of optimal taxation and government production to open economies. Appropriate rules for project evaluation and the determination of consumption, production, and trade taxes under a variety of restrictions (e.g., less than 100 percent profit taxes, government budget constraint, foreign exchange constraint) are derived. Among the results are (a) international prices should be used for evaluating public projects, unless …
Patents, Priority and Imitation or, the Economics of Races and Waiting Games
Journal Article Patents, Priority and Imitation or, the Economics of Races and Waiting Games Get access Partha Dasgupta Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 98, Issue 389, 1 March 1988, Pages 66–80, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233511 Published: 01 March 1988
Savings and Fertility
Population ethics is rightly regarded a difficult field of inquiry. Here I have tried to argue that the kinds of difficulty that have intrigued philosophers in recent years are insubstantial. Real difficulties lie elsewhere. They lie in deep conceptual problems actual people are faced with when they contemplate the desirable size of their family and the savings that should accompany it
Conspicuous Consumption, Inconspicuous Leisure
It is commonly argued that because relative consumption appears to matter to people, they must be involved in a 'rat race': people work harder and consume more than they would have were optimum public policies in place. But although consuming more today would improve one's relative consumption now, it would worsen one's relative consumption in the future. In this article we identify the structure of felicity functions for which the two effects of…
Valuing Objects and Evaluating Policies in Imperfect Economies
The idea of sustainable development
Political Philosophy
This article reports on a conversation convened by Quentin Skinner at the invitation of the Editors of The Journal of Political Philosophy and held in Cambridge on 13 February 2001
Project Appraisal and Foreign Exchange Constraints
This article focuses on the complexities involving project appraisals and foreign exchanges in the U.S. It is convenient to suppose that the government simultaneously optimizes with respect to all variables within its control, and it is the implication of this supposition that has been explored in much of the recent literature on project evaluation. But as a model of government behavior it is not persuasive. Moreover, the analysis of government b…
The inclusive wealth index and sustainable development goals
Economic Policy and Technological Performance
Journal Article Economic Policy and Technological Performance Get access Economic Policy and Technological Performance. Edited by PARTHA DASGUPTA and PAUL STONEMAN. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 243. £25.00, US$34.50 hardback. ISBN 0 521 34555 3.) Michael Waterson Michael Waterson University of Sydney and University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal,…
Is Contemporary Economic Development Sustainable
Addressing our planetary crisis
National Wealth
Notes on the measurement of inequality
The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources
Partha Dasgupta, Geoffrey Heal; The Optimal Depletion of Exhaustible Resources12, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 41, Issue 5, 1 December 1974, Page
Benefit-Cost Analysis and Trade Policies
This paper extends the theory of optimal taxation and government production to open economies. Appropriate rules for project evaluation and the determination of consumption, production, and trade taxes under a variety of restrictions (e.g., less than 100 percent profit taxes, government budget constraint, foreign exchange constraint) are derived. Among the results are (a) international prices should be used for evaluating public projects, unless …
Population in economic growth
Decentralization and Rights
Industrial Structure and the Nature of Innovative Activity
In this paper we attempt to provide an analytical framework relating market structure to the nature of inventive activity. In doing so we have come to modify this neo-Schumpeterian view in a fundamental way. We shall argue that except in the short run both market structure and the nature of inventive activity are endogenous; that the degree of concentration in an industry ought not to be treated as given, as it recently has been in the industrial…
Project Appraisal and Foreign Exchange Constraints
This article focuses on the complexities involving project appraisals and foreign exchanges in the U.S. It is convenient to suppose that the government simultaneously optimizes with respect to all variables within its control, and it is the implication of this supposition that has been explored in much of the recent literature on project evaluation. But as a model of government behavior it is not persuasive. Moreover, the analysis of government b…
Discounting for time and risk in energy policy
Utilitarianism, information and rights
‘Social justice,’ writes Hayek, ‘can be given a meaning only in a directed or “command” economy (such as an army) in which individuals are ordered what to do ... Indeed ... no free action of the individuals could produce results satisfying any principle of distributive justice’ (Hayek 1976, p. 69). Such an unequivocal position is no doubt rare. But the claim that the demands of distributive justice conflict with individual rights – in particular,…
The Control of Resources
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment
Journal Article Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Theory Get access Partha Dasgupta, Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Debraj Ray Debraj Ray Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, and Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 384, 1 December 1986, Pages 1…
Economic Policy and Technological Performance
A growing awareness of the contribution that technological change has made and can make to economic and social welfare has brought science and technology policy to the forefront of public discussions in both national and international forums. The papers in this volume, first presented at a Centre for Economic Policy Research conference held in London in September 1986 on the Economics of Technology Policy, represent a wide ranging contribution to…
The Simple Economics of Research Portfolios
Journal Article The Simple Economics of Research Portfolios Get access Partha Dasgupta, Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Eric Maskin Eric Maskin Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 387, 1 September 1987, Pages 581–595, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232925 Published: 01 September …
The Economics of Bargaining
Journal Article The Economics of Bargaining Get access The Economics of Bargaining. Edited by Ken Binmore and Partha Dasgupta. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Pp. 260. à à à à £27.50 hardback.) Howard C. Petith Howard C. Petith University College of Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 388, 1 December 1987, Pages 995–996, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233088 Published: …
Inequality as a Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment
This paper explores the policy implications that are obtained once it is recognized that at low nutrition intakes a person's productivity is an increasing function of intake. In the context of a fully general equilibrium model it is shown that if aggregate assets in an economy are neither large nor small, certain patterns of Lorenz improving asset redistributions (or nutrition transfers) increase aggregate output and reduce the volume of involunt…
Economic Organizations as Games
Part 1 Equilibrium theory: the existence of equilibrium in discontinuous economic games - theory, application, P.Dasgupta and E.Maskin. Part 2 Imperfect competition: on the rate of convergence of oligopoly equilibria in large markets - an example, P.Dasgupta and Y.Ushio natural oligopolies, A.Shaked and J.Sutton relaxing price competition through product differentiation, A.Shaked and J.Sutton the theory of technological competition, P.Dasgupta st…
Patents, Priority and Imitation or, the Economics of Races and Waiting Games
Journal Article Patents, Priority and Imitation or, the Economics of Races and Waiting Games Get access Partha Dasgupta Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 98, Issue 389, 1 March 1988, Pages 66–80, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233511 Published: 01 March 1988
Economic Policy and Technological Performance
Journal Article Economic Policy and Technological Performance Get access Economic Policy and Technological Performance. Edited by PARTHA DASGUPTA and PAUL STONEMAN. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 243. £25.00, US$34.50 hardback. ISBN 0 521 34555 3.) Michael Waterson Michael Waterson University of Sydney and University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal,…
The Fragile Environment
The Fragile Environment explores the impact of the human species on its environment and deals with such topical and urgent questions as the death of forests, acid rain and pollution, desertification, the greenhouse effect and other disruptions to the global climate. The eight contributors, all international authorities, address themselves to a broad general readership
Well-Being and the Extent of its Realisation in Poor Countries
Journal Article Well-Being and the Extent of its Realisation in Poor Countries Get access Partha Dasgupta Partha Dasgupta Stanford University, University of Cambridge and World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 400, 1 April 1990, Pages 1–32, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234181 Published: 01 April 1990
Nutrition, Non-Convexities and Redistributive Policies
Journal Article Nutrition, Non-Convexities and Redistributive Policies Get access Partha Dasgupta Partha Dasgupta Stanford University, Cambridge University and World Institute for Development Economics Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 101, Issue 404, 1 January 1991, Pages 22–26, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233832 Published: 01 January 1991
On measuring the quality of life
Altruism and the Allocation of Resources
Modern resource allocation theory is used to consider certain issues raised by the concept of altruism. Both state action and individual altruism may compensate for deficiencies in resource allocations. Both the state and individuals incur information costs, and these costs determine whether individual altruism or state action is used. Justice in the public realm makes altruism in the private realm unnecessary. I also show how what appears to be …
Savings and Fertility
Population ethics is rightly regarded a difficult field of inquiry. Here I have tried to argue that the kinds of difficulty that have intrigued philosophers in recent years are insubstantial. Real difficulties lie elsewhere. They lie in deep conceptual problems actual people are faced with when they contemplate the desirable size of their family and the savings that should accompany it
Population and Savings
The main part of this chapter discusses normative considerations on population and savings. It has five sections. The first discusses parental concerns on the well‐being of their children in relation to savings. The second discusses the Genesis Problem (which in its purest form asks how many lives there should be, enjoying what standards), and the Repugnant Conclusion (which, in Parfit's formulation states that ‘For any population of at least ten…
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