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==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.
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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=
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