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born 1942 United Kingdom

Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (born 17 November 1942) is a British ecological economist, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

United Kingdom
Economists

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As proposals for estimating the social scarcity prices of natural resources remain contentious, economic accountants ignore them and governments remain wary of doing anything about them.

Partha Dasgupta (2007)

In the quantitative models that appear in leading economics journals and textbooks, nature is taken to be a fixed, indestructible factor of production. The problem with the assumption is that it is wrong: nature consists of degradable resources.

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