Working Papers

• Reproductive Externalities and Fertility Behaviour, Published in European Economic Review 44 (2000) 619) 644.
• Intergenerational Equity, Social Discount Rates, and Global Warming, with K.-G. Maler and S. Barrett. (Published in P.R. Portney and J.P. Weyant, eds., Discounting and Intergenerational Equity (Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1999).
• Science as an Institution: setting priorities in a new socio-economic context (Published in "World Conference on Science: Science for the Twenty-first Century, A New Commitment" (Paris: UNESCO, 2000)).
• Modern Economics and its Critics (Published in U. Maki, ed. (2002), Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Social Construction (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press)).
• Economic Pathways to Ecological Sustainability: Challenges for the New Millennium (Published in Bioscience, 2000, 50(4), 339-345.)
• Environmental and Resource Economics in the World of the Poor (Published by Resources for the Future, Washington DC, 1997: ISBN
  0-915707-91-8.)
• Population, Resources, and Welfare: An Exploration into Reproductive and Environmental Externalities
  (Published as "Population, Poverty, and the Natural Environment" in K.-G. Maler and J. Vincent, eds., Handbook of Environmental Economics, Vol. I (Amsterdam: North Holland), 2003.)
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• Valuing Biodiversity (Published under the title, "Economic Value of Biodiversity, Overview", in S. Levin, ed.(2000), Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (New York: Academic Press)).
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• Social Capital and Economic Performance: Analytics (Published in E. Ostrom and T.K. Ahn, eds (2003), Foundations of Social Capital (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar)).
• Evaluating Projects and Assessing Sustainable Development in Imperfect Economies, with K.J. Arrow and K..-G. Maler. (Published in Environmental and Resource Economics, 2003, 26(4), 647-685).
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• World Povery: Causes and Pathways (Published in F. Bourguignon and B. Plescovik, eds., Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 2003: Accelerating Development (New York: World Bank and Oxford University Press), 2004.)
• Is Majority Rule the Best Voting Method (Published as "The Fairest Vote of All", Scientific American, 2004, 290(3).)
• Are we consuming too much (Published in Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004, 18(3).)
• What do Economists Analyse: Values or Facts? (Published in Economics and Philosophy, 2005, 21(April).)
  
• (with Eric Maskin) On the Robustness of Majority Rule and Unanimity Rule
• (with Karl-Göran Mäler) Environmental and Resource Economics: Some Recent Developments (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4 for this paper)
• Mathematics and Economic Reasoning (The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, 2008, edited by W.T. Gowers and J. Barrow-Green (Princeton University Press)).
• Three Conceptions of Intergenerational Justice (Published in: H. Lillehammer and D.H. Mellor, eds (2005), Ramsey's Legacy (Oxford: Clarendon Press)).
• Common Property Resources: Economic Analytics, (Published in Economics & Political Weekly, 2005, 40(16), April 16-22.)
• The Economics of Social Capital, (Published in The Economic Record, 2005, 81(Supplement).)
• Uncertainty and Hyperbolic Discounting, (2005), The American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 4, pp. 1290-1299.
• Nature and the Economy, published in Journal of Applied Ecology, 2007, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 475-487.
  
• Comments on the Stern Review's Economics of Climate Change, in National Institute Economic Review, No. 199 (January 2007), London: Sage Publications.
• Facts And Values In Modern Economics, (To be published in H. Kincaid and D. Ross, eds., Handbook on the Philosophy of Economic Sciences (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2007.)
• Discounting Climate Change, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008, 37, 141-169.
• On the Robustness of Majority Rule, with Eric Maskin, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(5), 949-973
• Comments on International Justice, Water and Respect for Creation, April 2007, Charity and Justice in the Relations Among Peoples and Nations (2007).
• Conspicuous Consumption, Inconspicuous Leisure, with Kenneth J. Arrow, (2009), The Economic Journal, 119 (November), F497–F516.
• Regarding Optimum Population, Journal of Political Philosophy, 2005, 13(4), 414-442. To be republished in R. Goodin and J. Fishkin, eds., Philosophy, Politics, and Society (Oxford: Basil Blackwell), 2008.
• The Welfare Economics of Green National Accounts, Published in Environmental and Resource Economics, 2009, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 3-38.
• The Place of Nature in Economic Development, Forthcoming in the Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 5 (North Holland), edited by Dani Rodrik and Mark Rosenzweig, (2010).
• Trust and Cooperation among Economic Agents, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, (2010), 364, 3301-3309.
• Matter of Trust: Social Capital and Economic Development, paper was prepared as a Plenary Lecture at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), in Seoul, June 2009.
• Narrow Identities, with Sanjeev Goyal, (2009).
• Poverty Traps: Exploring the Complexity of Causation, prepared for IFPRI's 2020 Conference on "Taking Action for the World Poor and Hungry People" in Beijing and shortly reprinted in an edited volume of selected briefs and policy essays. The volume is entitled "The Poorest and the Hungry: Assessments, Analyses, and Actions", and the editors are Joachim von Braun, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Rajul Pandya-Lorch.
• Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth, with Kenneth J. Arrow, Lawrence H. Goulder, Kevin J. Mumford and Kirsten Oleson, (2010).
• Personal Histories and Poverty Traps, (2010).
• Nature's role in sustaining economic development, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, (2011), 365, 5-11
• Dark Matters: Exploitation as Cooperation, (2011), Journal of Theoretical Biology.
• The Ethics of Intergenerational Distribution: Reply and Response to John E. Roemer, Environmental and Resource Economics (2011), Vol 39, No. 4.
• The Value of Biodiversity, with Ann Kinzig and Charles Perrings, (2011)
• Inclusive National Accounts: Introduction, (2011)

Publications since 2001: Partha Dasgupta