Partha Dasgupta

Senior Adviser, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science
Professor Emeritus, The University of Cambridge

Profile

Professor Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. After completed doctoral program at University of Cambridge in 1960s, he worked at the London School of Economics during 1971-1984 and moved to the University of Cambridge in 1985 as Professor of Economics. During 1989-92 he was also Professor of Economics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University; and during 1991-97 he served as Chairman of the (Scientific Advisory) Board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm

Research interests

Professor Dasgupta’s research interests have covered Economics of Poverty and Nutrition, Environmental Economics, Economic Measurement, and Economics of Knowledge. His publications include “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 [recipient of the United States Association of Environmental and Resource Economists “Publication of Enduring Quality Award 2003”]); “The Control of Resources” (Harvard University Press, 1982); “An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution” (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993); “Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment” (Oxford University Press, 2001; revised edition, 2004); and “Economics: A Very Short Introduction” (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007).