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Line 3: {{Use dmy dates\|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox economist \| honorific_prefix = [[~~Sir~~Professor]] \| name = ~~Partha~~Sir ~~Sarathi~~Partha Dasgupta \| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|GBE~~\|Kt~~\|FRS\|FBA}} \| native_name = \| native_name_lang = Line 14: \| birth_name = Partha Sarathi Dasgupta \| birth_date = {{birth-date and age\|17 November 1942}} \| birth_place = [[Dhaka\|Dacca]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] \| 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]] \| alma_mater = {{ubl\|[[Hansraj College, Delhi]] (BSc)\|[[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (BA, PhD)}}▼ \| institution = {{ubl\|[[University of Cambridge]]\|[[London School of Economics]]}} \| field = [[Ecological economics]] Line 30 ⟶ 29: \| known_for = \| notable_works = \| ~~father~~ relatives = [[Amiya Kumar Dasgupta]] (father) \| spouse = {{marriage\|Carol Dasgupta\|1968}} \| partner = <!-- unmarried life partner; use ''Name (1950–present)'' --> Line 37 ⟶ 36: \| repec_prefix = \| repec_id = \| awards = {{ubl\|[[Volvo Environment Prize]] (2002)\|[[PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award]] (2007)\|[[Zayed International Prize for the Environment]] (2011)\|[[Blue Planet Prize]] (2015)\|[[Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement]] (2016)\|[[Kew International Medal]] (2021)\|[[Champions of the Earth]] (2022)\|[[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] (2023)}} ▲\| ~~alma_mater~~ education= {{ubl\|[[Hansraj College, Delhi]] ([[BSc]])\|[[Trinity College, Cambridge]] ([[B. A.\|BA]], [[PhD]])}}}} }} '''Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta''' ~~{{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|GBE\|Kt\|FRS\|FBA}}~~ (born 17 November 1942)<ref name=who>{{cite book\|title=The international who's who 2011 \|date=2010 \|publisher=Routledge \|location=London \|isbn=978-1-85743-546-7 \|page=471 \|edition=74th}}</ref> is an Indian-British economist who ~~was~~is Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the [[University of Cambridge]], United Kingdom,<ref name=who /> and a fellow of [[St John's College, Cambridge]]. ==Personal life== Line 56 ⟶ 55: 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=England's infrastructure projects will be 'nature positive', ministers vow\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/14/england-infrastructure-projects-will-be-nature-positive-ministers-vow-age-of-extinction\|access-date=2021-06-14\|website=the Guardian\|language=en}}</ref> However, as Dasgupta writes in the Preface, the Review is an investigation into a larger concern, in that it reconstructs contemporary growth and development economics and the economics of poverty by recognising that the human economy is embedded in Nature, it is not external to Nature. The Review explores the far reaching implications of the altered perspective. ===Appointments=== Line 69 ⟶ 68: 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 European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2010–2011). 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 collections of essays have been published in his honour: Line 79 ⟶ 78: ===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. In 2022 he was honoured by Freedom of the City of London by Special Invitation. The same year he was awarded the [[Champions of the Earth]] award for Science and Innovation by the [[UNEP]]. For 2023 he was awarded the [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] in the category "Economics, Finance and Management".<ref>[https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/frontiers-knowledge-award-16th-edition-economics-finance-management/ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2023]</ref> Dasgupta 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"'' (with S. A. Marglin and A. K. Sen), United Nations, 1972. * ''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~~&pg=PA402&lpg=PA402~~&dq=%22social+capital+a+multifaceted+perspective%22+%22world+bank+publications%22&~~source=web&ots=EEpdDaaNZf&sig~~pg=~~miES9_aAx19BMVe6TxWUAA6zQM8#PPP1,M1~~PP1 book preview] except pp. 217–401, 403–25) * ''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 96 ⟶ 95: ==References== {{Reflist}} ~~[https://rebelsuccessforleaders.com/ Charlotte Allen]~~ ==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 ] {{~~Youtube~~YouTube\|LhgGThj6jJo\|"Partha Dasgupta: How Biodiversity Underpins Economic Prosperity"}} * {{MathGenealogy\|id=156967}} Line 110: {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dasgupta, Partha ~~Sarathi~~}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:~~Bangladeshi~~Indian knights]] [[Category:20th-century Bengalis]] [[Category:Bengali knights]]