Selected Papers of Partha Dasgupta

Readership: Academics, students and researchers interested in welfare and development economics, the economics of technological change, population, environmental and resource economics, and the theory of games.

Zusatztext Each of the papers in these volumes is a jewel. Together, they are a treasure. Dasgupta's oeuvre speaks of compassion, sharp observation, and above all analytical brilliance. More than a collection of great papers, this work catalogues the reasoning of an extraordinary mind, determined to address the most important problems of our age. In Dasgupta's hands, economic theory fulfills its true promise, explaining why some people are destitute in a world of plenty, why natural resources that should be husbanded are plundered, why fertility remains stubbornly high in places that cannot sustain a high population, and much, much more. His theories also tell us how policy can right these wrongs. When I need inspiration, I shall look here. Informationen zum Autor Sir Partha Dasgupta was born in Dhaka (at that time in India) and educated in Varanasi, Delhi, and Cambridge. He taught at the London School of Economics during 1971-1984 and moved to Cambridge in 1985. During 1989-1992 he was also Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Stanford University. In addition to research and teaching at his home university, Professor Dasgupta has been much involved in introducing environmental and resource economics in Universities in Africa and South Asia. He is a Founder Member of the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economists, SANDEE and a Founding Member of the Editorial Board of the quarterly journal Environmental and Development Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. His previous book was Economics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2007). Klappentext Two volume set of the Selected Papers of seminal economist Partha Dasgupta. Zusammenfassung The Selected Papers of Partha Dasgupta brings together the works of one of the most distinguished economists working today. Professor Dasgupta was Knighted in 2002 for services to economics and his 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 undernutrition. This two-volume collection represents a body of work spanning 40 years and contains a selection of Dasgupta's most original papers on six key themes. Both volumes feature foundational papers and substantial original introductions. The articles reflect inter-disciplinary scholarship in the author's search for a unifying way to analyse the problems people face in trying to allocate resources over time, among groups, and across uncertain contingencies. Each volume opens with an extended essay explaining the motivation underlying economics; the concept of what economics is about and how modern economists move within it. The author makes essential use of findings in anthropology, demography, ecology, geography, moral philosophy, and the environmental and nutritional sciences, but studies social phenomena through the lens of economics, to unravel the pathways by which scarce resources are produced, exchanged, and disseminated. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME ONE 1: Facts and Values in Modern Economics Part I: Institutions 2: Trust as a Commodity 3: The Economics of Social Capital 4: Information Disclosure and the Economics of Science and Technology, with P. David 5: Science as an Institution: Setting Priorities in a New Socio-Economic Context 6: The Implementation of Social Choice Rules: Some Basic Results in Incentive Compatibility, with P. Hammond and E. Maskin 7: On Imperfect Information and Optimal Pollution Control, with P. Hammond and E. Maskin 8: Fully Progressive Taxation, with P. Hammond 9: Decentralization and Rights Part II: Innovations 10: Industrial Structure and the Nature of Innovative Activity, with J.E. Stiglitz 11:...

Autorentext
Sir Partha Dasgupta was born in Dhaka (at that time in India) and educated in Varanasi, Delhi, and Cambridge. He taught at the London School of Economics during 1971-1984 and moved to Cambridge in 1985. During 1989-1992 he was also Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Stanford University. In addition to research and teaching at his home university, Professor Dasgupta has been much involved in introducing environmental and resource economics in Universities in Africa and South Asia. He is a Founder Member of the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economists, SANDEE and a Founding Member of the Editorial Board of the quarterly journal Environmental and Development Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. His previous book was Economics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2007).

Klappentext
Two volume set of the Selected Papers of seminal economist Partha Dasgupta.

Zusammenfassung
The Selected Papers of Partha Dasgupta brings together the works of one of the most distinguished economists working today. Professor Dasgupta was Knighted in 2002 for services to economics and his 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 undernutrition. This two-volume collection represents a body of work spanning 40 years and contains a selection of Dasgupta's most original papers on six key themes. Both volumes feature foundational papers and substantial original introductions. The articles reflect inter-disciplinary scholarship in the author's search for a unifying way to analyse the problems people face in trying to allocate resources over time, among groups, and across uncertain contingencies. Each volume opens with an extended essay explaining the motivation underlying economics; the concept of what economics is about and how modern economists move within it. The author makes essential use of findings in anthropology, demography, ecology, geography, moral philosophy, and the environmental and nutritional sciences, but studies social phenomena through the lens of economics, to unravel the pathways by which scarce resources are produced, exchanged, and disseminated.

Inhalt
VOLUME ONE
1: Facts and Values in Modern Economics
Part I: Institutions
2: Trust as a Commodity
3: The Economics of Social Capital
4: Information Disclosure and the Economics of Science and Technology, with P. David
5: Science as an Institution: Setting Priorities in a New Socio-Economic Context
6: The Implementation of Social Choice Rules: Some Basic Results in Incentive Compatibility, with P. Hammond and E. Maskin
7: On Imperfect Information and Optimal Pollution Control, with P. Hammond and E. Maskin
8: Fully Progressive Taxation, with P. Hammond
9: Decentralization and Rights
Part II: Innovations
10: Industrial Structure and the Nature of Innovative Activity, with J.E. Stiglitz
11: Patents, Priority and Imitation, or, the Economics of Races and Waiting Games
12: The Simple Economics of Research Portfolios, with E. Maskin
13: Learning by Doing, Market Structure and Industrial and Trade Policies, with J.E. Stiglitz
Part III: Human Values
14: On Measuring the Quality of Life, with M. Weale
15: On the Robustness of Majority Rule, with E.…

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