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{{short description|British economist (born 1942)}}
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| birth_place = [[Dhaka]], [[British India]] (now [[Bangladesh]])
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| field = [[Development economics]]
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'''Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (born on 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 is the [[Frank P. Ramsey|Frank Ramsey]] Professor Emeritus of Economics at the [[University of Cambridge]], United Kingdom;<ref name=who /> Fellow of [[St John's College, Cambridge]], and Visiting Professor at the [[New College of the Humanities]], London.

==Personal life==
He was born in [[Dhaka]], and raised mainly in [[Varanasi]], [[India]], and is the son of the noted economist [[Amiya Kumar Dasgupta]]. He is married to Carol Dasgupta, who is a [[psychotherapist]]. His father-in-law was the Nobel Laureate [[James Meade]].

==Education==

Dasgupta was educated in [[Rajghat Besant School]] in Varanasi, India, obtaining his Matriculation Degree in 1958, and pursued undergraduate studies in [[Physics]] at the [[Hans Raj College]], [[India]], graduating in 1962 and in Mathematics at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], graduating in 1965. He obtained a PhD in Economics at Cambridge in 1968 with thesis titled ''Population, growth and non-transferable capital (investigations in the theory of optimum economic growth)''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dasgupta |first1=Parthasarathi |title=(Thesis) Population Growth and Non-transferable Capital: Investigations in the Theory of Optimum Economic Growth |url=http://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21429615180003606 |website=iDiscover |publisher=University of Cambridge. Faculty of Economics Politics. |date=1968}}</ref> His PhD supervisor was [[James Mirrlees|Sir James Mirrlees]].

==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]]; the [[economics of global warming]],<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]].

In 2019 he led production of a report on the economics of biodiversity, commissioned by the UK government.<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 that could be used to assess new national infrastructure developments.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-14|title=England’s infrastructure projects will be ‘nature positive’, ministers vow|url=http://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>

===Appointments===

Dasgupta taught at the [[London School of Economics]] (Lecturer 1971–1975; Reader 1975–1978; Professor of Economics 1978–1984<ref name="efdinitiative.org">{{cite web |title=CURRICULUM VITAE |url=http://www.efdinitiative.org/sites/default/files/cv/cv-partha.dasgupta.pdf |work=Environment for Development |date=December 2011 |access-date=2020-08-01}}</ref>)<ref name=who /> and moved to the [[University of Cambridge]] in January 1985 as Professor of Economics (and Professorial Fellow of St John's College),<ref name=who /> where he served as Chair of the Faculty of Economics between 1997 and 2001. From 1989 until 1992 he was on leave from the University of Cambridge and served as Professor of Economics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University, USA.<ref name=who /> In October 1991 he returned to Cambridge, on leave from Stanford University, to re-assume his Chair at Cambridge. He resigned from Stanford in 1992 and has remained in Cambridge since then.

'''Academic Activities'''

During 1991–97 Dasgupta was Chairman of the (Scientific Advisory) Board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], Stockholm. During 1999–2009 he served as a Founder Member of the Management and Advisory Committee of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE),<ref name=who /> based in [[Kathmandu]]. In 1996 he helped to establish the journal Environment and Development Economics,[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EDE] published by Cambridge University Press, whose purpose has been not only to publish original research at the interface of poverty and the environmental-resource base, but also to provide an opportunity to scholars in poor countries to publish their findings in an international journal.

During 2008-2013 he was a Professorial Research Fellow at the [[University of Manchester]]'s Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). He was also an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large from 2007 until 2013 at [[Cornell University]] and from 2010 until 2011 President of the'' [[European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists]] (EAERE)''. He has been a patron of the population concern charity [[Population Matters]] (formerly the Optimum Population Trust) since 2008. During 2011-2014 he was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the [[International Human Dimensions Programme]] (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change, Bonn. Since 2011 he has been Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna. He served as Chair of the Central Government Expert Group on Green National Accounting for India which submitted its report in 2013. He is a cofounder of the [[Centre for the Study of Existential Risk]] at the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref>[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6124/1123.full Denial of Catastrophic Risks], Science 8 March 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6124 p. 1123 DOI: 10.1126/science.1236756</ref><ref name=CV>{{cite web|title=CURRICULUM VITAE|url=http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/people/emeritus/pd10000/CV.pdf|website=www.econ.cam.ac.uk|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728122132/http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/people/emeritus/pd10000/CV.pdf|archive-date=28 July 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Honours==

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; 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).

'''Prizes and Awards'''

Dasgupta was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty [[Queen Elizabeth II]] in 2002 in her Birthday Honours List for services to economics; was co-recipient (with [[Karl-Göran Mäler]]) of the 2002 [[Volvo Environment Prize]];<ref>[http://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>[http://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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20091108015517/http://www.eaere.org/ek.html ''Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics''], a joint prize of the Kempe Foundation and the [http://www.eaere.org ''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=http://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> and the 2016 [[Tyler Prize]].

He 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 }}
* [http://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/http://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=miES9_aAx19BMVe6TxWUAA6zQM8#PPP1,M1 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])
* "Selected Papers of Partha Dasgupta: Vol.1, Institutions, Innovations, and Human Values; Vol. 2, Poverty, Population, and Natural Resources". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

==References==
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==External links==

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* [http://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 6th April 2010 (video)]
* {{Youtube|LhgGThj6jJo|"Partha Dasgupta: How Biodiversity Underpins Economic Prosperity"}}
* {{MathGenealogy|id=156967}}

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