Partha Sarathi Dasgupta
Data di nascita 17/11/1942
Luogo Dacca, East Bengal (India)
Nomina 22/12/1997
Disciplina Economia
Titolo Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, Università di
Cambridge e Professore di economia ambientale e dello sviluppo,
Università di Manchester
Principali premi, riconoscimenti e accademie
Membro, Econometric Society, 1975; Membro, British Academy, 1989; Membro straniero onorario, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991; Membro straniero, Reale Accademia delle Scienze svedese, 1991;
Membro straniero, US National Academy of Sciences, 2001; Membro, Third World Academy of Sciences,
2001; Membro, Royal Society, 2004; Membro straniero, American Philosophical Society, 2005; Membro
straniero, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 2009; Membro, Academia Europaea, 2009; Membro
onorario, London School of Economics, 1994; Membro onorario, American Economic Association, 1997;
Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University, 2007-2013; Professore onorario di Economia
Ambientale e del Clima, Università di Copenaghen, 2008-. Presidente, European Economic Association, 1999;
Presidente, Royal Economic Society, 1998-2001; Presidente, Sezione F (Economia), Festival della Scienza
della BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science), 2006; Presidente, European Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists, 2010-2011. Premio Volvo per l’Ambiente 2002 (insieme a K.G. Mäler); Vincitore (con G.M. Heal) del Premio "Publication of Enduring Quality 2003" dell’Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists per il libro Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources (Cambridge
University Press, 1979); Premio Biennale Kenneth E. Boulding dell’International Society for Ecological
Economics, 2004 (insieme a K.-G. Mäler); Premio John Kenneth Galbraith 2007, American Agricultural
Economics Association; Vincitore (insieme a E. Maskin) del Premio Biennale Erik Kempe della Kempe
Foundation-European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics-Umea University, 2007, per
l’articolo, "Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting", American Economic Review, 2005, 95(4), 1290-1299.
Knight Bachelor (Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honours List, 2002, per "servizi all’economia").
Doctor, Honoris Causa: Università di Wageningen, 2000; Università Cattolica di Lovanio, 2007; Faculté
Universitaire Saint-Louis, 2009; Università di Bologna, 2010.
Pubblicazioni principali
Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources (with G.M. Heal), James Nisbet and Cambridge University Press,
1979; The Control of Resources, Basil Blackwell (Oxford), Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass.) and
Oxford University Press (Delhi) 1982; Economic Organizations as Games (co-editor with K. Binmore), Basil
Blackwell (Oxford), 1986; The Economics of Bargaining (co-editor with K. Binmore), Basil Blackwell (Oxford),
1987;Economic Policy and Technological Performance (co-editor with P. Stoneman), Cambridge University
Press, 1987;An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution, Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1993; The Environment and
Emerging Development Issues, Vols. I and II (co-editor with K.-G. Mäler), Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1997; The
Economics of Transnational Commons (co-editor with K.-G. Mäler and A. Vercelli), Clarendon Press (Oxford),
1997; Creation and Transfer of Knowledge (co-editor with C. Barba Navaretti, K.-G. Mäler and D. Siniscalco),
Springer (Berlin), 1998; Social Capital, A Multifaceted Perspective (co-editor with Ismail Serageldin), World
Bank (Washington, DC), 2000; Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Oxford University Press
(Oxford), 2001 (Revised edition, with new Appendix (paperback), March 2004); The Economics of NonConvex Ecosystems (co-editor with Karl-Göran Mäler), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003; Ecosystems and
Human Well-Being: Synthesis (with W.V. Reid, H.A. Mooney, A. Cropper et al.), World Resources Institute
(Washington, DC: Island Press), 2005, pp. 1-137 (This publication synthesised the findings of the Millennium
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Ecosystem Assessment, which has been awarded the Zayed International Prize, 2005);Economics: A Very
Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2007 (Translated to date into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese,
Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and German); Povertà, Ambiente e Società (Bologna: il Mulino), 2007 (una
raccolta di relazioni su povertà, ambiente e società, tradotti e a cura di Elena Podrecca e Maurizio Zenezini).
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