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Zusatztext Partha Dasgupta is a very highly regarded economic theorist! and his book shows why. Dasgupta writes more clearly! and in a more accessible manner... than most highly regarded economic theorists. Informationen zum Autor Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. A Past President of the Royal Economic Society and of the European Economic Association, Professor Dasgupta is a Fellow of the British Academy, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. His publications include An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993). Klappentext Dasgupta develops methods of valuation and evaluation with the aim of measuring! and searching to improve! the quality of our lives. He focuses on the ways in which our quality of life is now known to be tied to the natural environment. Zusammenfassung In 'Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment', Partha Dasgupta explores ways to measure the quality of life. In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to the natural environment, illustrating how it can be incorporated, more generally, into economic reasoning in a seamless manner. Inhaltsverzeichnis Summary and Guide Introduction: Means and Ends I Valuing and Evaluating Prologue 1: The Notion of Well-Being *1: Ordering Social States 2: Why Measure Well-Being? 3: Constituents and Determinants of Well-Being II Measuring Current Well-Being Prologue 4: Theory 5: Current Quality of Life in Poor Countries III Measuring Well-Being over Time Prologue 6: Intergenerational Well-Being *6: Intergenerational Conflicts 7: Economic Institutions and the Natural Environment 8: Valuing Goods 9: Wealth and Well-Being IV Evaluating Policies in Imperfect Economies Prologue 10: Policy Reforms 11: Discounting Future Consumption: How and Why 12: Institutional Responses to Policy Change V Valuing Potential Lives Prologue 13: Some Views 14: Classical Utilitarianism and the Genesis Problem *14: Numbers and Well-Being under Classical Utilitarianism 15: Actual versus Potential Lives *15: Generation-Relative Utilitarianism Appendix ...
