Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
Necrothesp (talk | contribs) mNo edit summary |
||
| (48 intermediate revisions by 29 users not shown) | |||
Line 3:
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}
{{Infobox economist
| honorific_prefix = [[
| name =
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GBE|FRS|FBA}}
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
Line 11:
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = Dasgupta in 2013
| birth_name = Partha Sarathi Dasgupta
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|17 November 1942}}
| birth_place = [[Dhaka|Dacca]], [[
| death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) -->
| death_place =
Line 21:
| nationality = British
| doctoral_advisor = [[James Mirrlees]]
▲| institution = [[University of Cambridge]] <br /> [[London School of Economics]]
| field = [[Ecological economics]]
| years_active =
Line 31 ⟶ 29:
| known_for =
| notable_works =
|
| spouse = {{marriage|Carol Dasgupta|1968}}
| partner = <!-- unmarried life partner; use ''Name (1950–present)'' -->
| children = 3
| influences = {{ubl|
| repec_prefix =
| repec_id =
| awards = {{ubl|[[Volvo Environment Prize]] (2002)|
|education={{ubl|[[Hansraj College, Delhi]] ([[BSc]])|[[Trinity College, Cambridge]] ([[B. A.|BA]], [[PhD]])}}}}
'''Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta'''
==Personal life==
He was born into a [[Baidya]] Brahmin family in [[Dhaka]], and raised mainly in [[Varanasi]], India, and is the son of the noted economist [[Amiya Kumar Dasgupta]]. He is married to Carol Dasgupta, who is a [[psychotherapist]]. They have three children, Zubeida (who is an educational psychologist), Shamik (a professor of philosophy), and Aisha (who is a demographer and works on the practice of family planning and reproductive health). His father-in-law was the Nobel Laureate [[James Meade]].{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
==Education==
Line 51 ⟶ 49:
==Career==
===Research===
His research interests have covered welfare and [[Economic development|development]] economics; the economics of technological change; population, environmental, and resource economics; [[social capital]]; the [[theory of games]]; [[economics of global warming|ecological economics]],<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/global-warming-Nature-Partha-Dasgupta-Books/s?keywords=global%20warming&rh=n%3A278392%2Ck%3Aglobal%20warming%2Cp_lbr_books_authors_browse-bin%3APartha%20Dasgupta | title=Amazon.co.uk: Global warming: Nature| website=Amazon UK}}</ref> and the economics of [[malnutrition]]. His work has been mainly applied-theoretical, but often highly mathematical, and many of his publications have been collaborative, among his co-authors being [[Kenneth Arrow]], [[Scott Barrett (political scientist)|Scott Barrett]], [[Ken Binmore]], Aisha Dasgupta, Paul David, Paul Ehrlich, Lawrence Goulder, [[Sanjeev Goyal]], Peter Hammond, [[Geoffrey M. Heal|Geoffrey Heal]], [[Simon A. Levin|Simon Levin]], [[Stephen Marglin]], [[Eric Maskin]], [[Peter Raven]], [[Debraj Ray (economist)|Debraj Ray]], [[Amartya Sen]], and [[Joseph Stiglitz]].
Dasgupta had a long-standing collaboration with the late [[Karl-Göran Mäler|Karl-Goran Maler]], with whom he developed the concept of 'inclusive wealth' as a measure of human well-being and helped to establish (with a grant from the McArthur Foundation, channelled through the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm) the [[South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics]] (SANDEE), based in Kathmandu, which since 1999 has conducted annual teaching and research workshops on ecological economics for young economists based in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Simultaneously, Dasgupta and Maler helped to launch the journal Environmental and Development Economics (Cambridge University Press) so as to enable economists in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to publish original research in a western journal.
Although Dasgupta has worked on research problems in a number of fields, his long-standing interest has been ecological economics, beginning with his Ph.D. thesis in which he placed he problem of optimum population and saving in a model of economic possibilities in which the biosphere set limits on economic growth. His 1982 monograph, 'The Control of Resources', set an agenda for future research at the nexus of population, consumption, and the natural environment, which he has pursued step by step in a series of journal articles and books.
In 2019 he led production of a report on the [[economics of biodiversity]], commissioned by the UK government, and published in February 2021 with the title 'The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review'.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Final Report - The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/final-report-the-economics-of-biodiversity-the-dasgupta-review|access-date=2021-06-14|website=GOV.UK|language=en}}</ref> An important objective was to develop a new measure to account for the capital inherent in the natural world (economist today call that '[[natural capital]]') that could be used as an ingredient in, among other things, the evaluation of investment projects and assessment of the sustainability of economic programmes.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-14|title=
===Appointments===
Line 63 ⟶ 61:
===Academic activities===
During 1991–97 Dasgupta was Chairman of the (Scientific Advisory) Board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], Stockholm. During 1999–2009 he served as a Founder Member of the Management and Advisory Committee of the [[South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics]] (SANDEE),<ref name=who /> based in [[Kathmandu]]. In 1996 he helped to establish the journal Environment and Development Economics,[https://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EDE] published by Cambridge University Press, whose purpose has been not only to publish original research at the interface of poverty and the environmental-resource base, but also to provide an opportunity to scholars in poor countries to publish their findings in an international journal.
During 2008-2013 he was a Professorial Research Fellow at the [[University of Manchester]]'s Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). He was also an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large from 2007 until 2013 at [[Cornell University]] and from 2010 until 2011 President of the
==Honours==
Dasgupta has been honoured by elections as: Fellow of the [[Econometric Society]]<ref name=who /> (1975); Fellow of the [[British Academy]] (1989); Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] (2004); Fellow of the [[Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory]], 2013; Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017; Fellow of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019; Fellow of the Society for Cost-Benefit Analysis; Member of the [[Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences]] (1997); Fellow of [[The World Academy of Sciences]] (formally the Academy of Science for the Developing World), 2001; Member of [[Academia Europaea]] (2009); Foreign Member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] (1991);<ref name=who /> Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=who /> (1991); Foreign Associate of the [[US National Academy of Sciences]] (2001); Foreign Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] (2005);<ref name=who /> Foreign Member of [[Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti]] (2009); Honorary Fellow of the [[London School of Economics]] (1994<ref name="efdinitiative.org"/>); Honorary Fellow of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (2010); Honorary Member of the [[American Economic Association]] (1997); Distinguished Fellow, [[Center for Economic Studies|CES]], [[University of Munich]], 2011; and President of the [[Royal Economic Society]] (1998–2001), the [[European Economic Association]] (1999), Section F (Economics) of the BA ([[British Association for the Advancement of Science]]) Festival of Science (2006), and the
Dasgupta was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2002 Birthday Honours]] for services to economics.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=57030|page=10217|date=15 August 2003}}</ref> He was appointed [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]] (GBE) in the [[2023 New Year Honours]] for services to economics and the natural environment.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63918|supp=y|page=N8|date=31 December 2022}}</ref>
Two books of essays in his honour have been offered to him as festschrifts: "Environment and Development Economics", edited by Scott Barrett, Karl-Goran Maler, and Eric Maskin (Oxford University Press), 2014; and "Sustainable Consumption: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives in Honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta", edited by Dale Southerton and Alistair Ulph (Oxford University Press), 2014. ▼
Two collections of essays have been published in his honour:
"Environment & Development Economics: Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta," edited by S. Barrett, K.-G. Maler, and E.S. Maskin (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2014.
▲
===Prizes and awards===
Dasgupta was co-recipient (with [[Karl-Göran Mäler]]) of the 2002 [[Volvo Environment Prize]];<ref>[https://www.environment-prize.com Volvo Environment Prize]</ref> and (also with Mäler) of the 2004 Boulding Award of the [[International Society for Ecological Economics]];,<ref>[https://www.isecoeco.org/boulding-award/ Kenneth E. Boulding Award]</ref> co-recipient (with Geoffrey Heal) of the [[Association of Environmental and Resource Economists]]' "Publication of Enduring Quality Award 2003" for their book, Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources; recipient of the [[PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award]], 2007, of the [[American Agricultural Economics Association]]; recipient of the [[Zayed International Environment Prize]] (II: scientific and technological achievements) in 2011; and recipient of the European Lifetime Achievement Award (in Environmental and Resource Economics) from the [[European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists]], 2014. In 2007, together with [[Eric Maskin]] he was awarded the Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics, a joint prize of the Kempe Foundation and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). He was awarded the 2015 [[Blue Planet Prize]] for Environmental Research,<ref name="bpa">{{Cite web|url=https://scienceportal.jst.go.jp/news/newsflash_review/newsflash/2015/06/20150619_02.html|title=ブループラネット賞英米2経済学者に|date=2015-06-19|publisher=SciencePortal ([[:w:ja:科学技術振興機構|Japan Science and Technology Agency]])|language=ja|access-date=2015-08-09}}</ref> the 2016 [[Tyler Prize]], and the Kew International Medal, 2021 of the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew.▼
▲Dasgupta was co-recipient (with [[Karl-Göran Mäler]]) of the 2002 [[Volvo Environment Prize]];<ref>[https://www.environment-prize.com Volvo Environment Prize]</ref> and (also with Mäler) of the 2004 Boulding Award of the [[International Society for Ecological Economics]];,<ref>[https://www.isecoeco.org/boulding-award/ Kenneth E. Boulding Award]</ref> co-recipient (with Geoffrey Heal) of the [[Association of Environmental and Resource Economists]]' "Publication of Enduring Quality Award 2003" for their book, Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources; recipient of the [[PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award]], 2007, of the [[American Agricultural Economics Association]]; recipient of the [[Zayed International Environment Prize]] (II: scientific and technological achievements) in 2011; and recipient of the European Lifetime Achievement Award (in Environmental and Resource Economics) from the
He was awarded a Doctorate (Honoris Causa) by [[Wageningen University]], 2000; [[Université catholique de Louvain|Catholic University of Louvain]], 2007; Faculte [[Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis|Université Saint-Louis]], 2009; [[University of Bologna]], 2010; [[Tilburg University]], 2012; Harvard University, 2013; University of York, 2017.▼
▲
==Selected publications==
* ''Guidelines for Project Evaluation
* ''Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources'' (with G. M. Heal), Cambridge University Press, 1979.
* "Utilitarianism, information and rights" in {{cite book | editor-last1 = Sen | editor-first1 = Amartya | editor-last2 = Williams | editor-first2 = Bernard | editor-link1 = Amartya Sen | editor-link2 = Bernard Williams | title = Utilitarianism and beyond | pages = 199–218 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | year = 1982 | isbn = 9780511611964 }}
* [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674169807 ''The Control of Resources''], [[Harvard University Press]], 1982.
* ''An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution''. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070929120800/https://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198288350 Pub. description])
* ''Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective'' (co-editor with Ismail Serageldin). Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2000. * ([https://books.google.com/books?id=6PZ8bvQQmxEC
* ''Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, Rev. ed. 2004.
* ''Economics: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. ([https://global.oup.com/academic/product/economics-a-very-short-introduction-9780192853455?cc=es&lang=en& OUP Website])
Line 95 ⟶ 98:
==External links==
{{commons category}}
{{wikiquote}}
* [https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/dasgupta/index.html Professor Partha Dasgupta's Home Page]
* [https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdscien/own/documents/dasgupta.html Dasgupta's page at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences]
* [https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1133864 Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 6 April 2010 (video)]
*[https://parthodasgupta.com/ Partho Dasgupta Website ]
* {{
* {{MathGenealogy|id=156967}}
Line 105 ⟶ 110:
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dasgupta, Partha
[[Category:1942 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:
[[Category:
[[Category:Bengali knights]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Manchester]]
Line 132 ⟶ 137:
[[Category:TWAS fellows]]
[[Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society]]
[[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Indian emigrants to England]]
| |||