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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=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.
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