Partha Dasgupta
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Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, FBA, FRS, is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was born in the sacred city Varanasi (Benares,Kashi), India.
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[edit] Research
Research interests have covered welfare and development economics; the economics of technological change; population, environmental, and resource economics; the theory of games; and the economics of under nutrition.
[edit] Education
He did undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Delhi, India and then did a B.A Mathematics at Cambridge. This was followed by a PhD in Economics at Cambridge
[edit] Affiliations
Dasgupta is a fellow of St. John's College, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the British Academy, foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary fellow of the London School of Economics, honorary member of the American Economic Association, member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. He is a past president of the Royal Economic Society (1998-2001) and the European Economic Association (1999). From 1991 to 1997, Dasgupta was chairman of the scientific board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and, from 1989 to 1992, professor of economics and philosophy, and director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University.
[edit] Honours
Dasgupta was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 in her Birthday Honours List for services to economics and was co-recipient (with Karl Goran Maler) of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society (elected 2004) and a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society (elected 2005).
[edit] Selected Publications
- The Control of Resources, Harvard University Press, 1983.
- An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. Partha Dasgupta (1993). An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution. (Pub. description)
- Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective (co-editor with Ismail Serageldin). Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2000. * (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. (OUP Website)
