Skip to Content
Report an accessibility problem

Sustainability Events

Social Capital and Natural Resources

Sir Partha Dasgupta

  • Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
  • Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge

Partha Dasgupta taught at the London School of Economics from 1971-84 before moving to the University of Cambridge in 1985. From 1989-92 he was Professor of Economics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University; and from 1991-97 he served as chairman of the Scientific Advisory board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm.

Dasgupta's research interests include welfare and development economics, the economics of technological change; population, environmental, and resource economics; game theory; and the economics of undernutrition.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007