Selected Papers of Partha Dasgupta: Volume I: Institutions, Innovations, and Human Values and Volume Ii: Poverty, Population, and Natural Resources

`These volumes provide an authoritative journey through the orieins, conception and birth of the brilliant ideas and powerful analyses that have shaped Professor Dasgupta's outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of resource allocation economics. A necessary and enriching source of key concepts and methods; they thoughtfully weave together threads of scientific knowledge that span ecology, political philosophy, ethics, social choice, and development studies.'

Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge; Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Professor of Environmental and Development Economics at the University of Manchester. He taught at the London School of Economics from 1971 to 1984, moving to the University of Cambridge in 1985 as Professor of Economics, where he served as Chairman of the Faculty of Economics from 1997 to 2001. He was also Professor of Economics, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University (1989-1992), and Chairman of the (Scientific Advisory) Board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm (1991-97). Since 1999 he has been a Founder Member of the Management and Advisory Committee of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE), Kathmandu. In 1996 he helped to establish the journal Environment and Development Economics, published by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Dasgupta is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the US National Academy of Sciences. He is a past President of the Royal Economic Society, the European Economic Association, and is currently President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Professor Dasgupta was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her Birthday Honours List in 2002 for `services to economics'; was co-winner (with Karl-Goran Maler of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm) of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize and the 2004 Kenneth E. Boulding Memorial Award of the International Society for Ecological Economics; and was the recipient of the John Kenneth Galbraith Award, 2007, of the American Agricultural Economics Association.