1. Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta was born on 17 November 1942 and is an Indian-British economist who is Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
16 Facts About Partha Dasgupta
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Partha Dasgupta is married to Carol Dasgupta, who is a psychotherapist.
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Partha Dasgupta was elected a member of the Apostles, a well-known discussion society at the university.
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Partha Dasgupta obtained a PhD in economics at Cambridge in 1968 with thesis titled Population, growth and non-transferable capital.
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Partha Dasgupta's work has been mainly applied-theoretical, but often highly mathematical, and many of his publications have been collaborative, among his co-authors being Kenneth Arrow, Scott Barrett, Ken Binmore, Aisha Dasgupta, Paul David, Paul Ehrlich, Lawrence Goulder, Sanjeev Goyal, Peter Hammond, Geoffrey Heal, Simon Levin, Stephen Marglin, Eric Maskin, Peter Raven, Debraj Ray, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz.
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However, as Partha Dasgupta writes in the Preface, the Review is an investigation into a larger concern, in that it reconstructs contemporary growth and development economics and the economics of poverty by recognising that the human economy is embedded in Nature, it is not external to Nature.
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Partha Dasgupta taught at the London School of Economics and moved to the University of Cambridge in January 1985 as Professor of Economics, where he served as Chair of the Faculty of Economics between 1997 and 2001.
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Partha Dasgupta resigned from Stanford in 1992 and has remained in Cambridge since then.
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Partha Dasgupta was 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.
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Partha Dasgupta has been a patron of the population concern charity Population Matters since 2008.
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Partha Dasgupta served as Chair of the Central Government Expert Group on Green National Accounting for India which submitted its report in 2013.
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Partha Dasgupta is Chairman of the Management Committee of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge.
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Partha Dasgupta was knighted in the 2002 Birthday Honours for services to economics.
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Partha Dasgupta was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to economics and the natural environment.
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Partha Dasgupta was awarded the 2015 Blue Planet Prize for Environmental Research, the 2016 Tyler Prize, and the Kew International Medal, 2021 of the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew.
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Partha Dasgupta was awarded a Doctorate by Wageningen University, 2000; Catholic University of Louvain, 2007; Faculte Universite Saint-Louis, 2009; University of Bologna, 2010; Tilburg University, 2012; Harvard University, 2013; University of York, 2017.