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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}}</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.