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Author:   Partha Dasgupta
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231160124

ISBN 10:   0231160127
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   25 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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In Memoriam: Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1921–2017) Foreword, by Robert M. Solow Preface Random Thoughts on “Birth and Death,” by Kenneth J. Arrow Birth and Death: Arrow Lecture 1. Economic Demography 2. Utilitarian Ethics 3. Ends and Means 4. Synopsis Part I: Foundations 5. Genesis Under Total Utilitarianism 6. Death 7. A Problem Like Sleeping Beauty 8. Generation-Centered Prerogatives in the Timeless World 9. Generations Across the Indefinite Future Part II: Applications 10. The Biosphere as a Renewable Natural Resource 11. Estimates of Globally Optimum Population 12. Technology and Institutions 13. Existential Risks and Informed Ends Appendix 1: Socially-Embedded Well-Being Functions Appendix 2: Common Property Resources and Reproductive Choices Appendix 3: Notes on Rawls’ Principle of Just Saving Appendix 4: Modeling the Biosphere Appendix 5: Inclusive Wealth and Social Well-Being Appendix 6: Valuing Freedom of Choice References Commentary on Birth and Death, by Scott Barrett Commentary on Birth and Death, by Eric Maskin Commentary on Birth and Death, by Joseph Stiglitz Response to Commentaries Epilogue Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights, with Aisha Dasgupta—Reprinted from Population and Development Review (September 2017) Contributors Author Index Subject Index

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In recent decades, we've seen human impacts on the biosphere surge far beyond sustainable levels, raising deeply vexing questions about the path ahead. With intellectual elegance and insight, Dasgupta delves into the moral, economic, and environmental dimensions of global population and living standards. This rigorous book opens a normative approach to the fraught choices confronting all of us.--Gretchen Daily, Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University What a book! Written with pellucid refinement and compelling responsibility, it incisively appraises humankind's numbers in tandem with assessments of ecology, time, personal decisions, and varied social and economic circumstances. Composed at the frontiers of norms and methods, philosophy and economics, demography and social analysis, Time and the Generations offers a systematic and bracing homage to heterodox reason in the spirit of Ken Arrow.--Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University

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Partha Dasgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge; a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge; and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, London. His books include Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment (2001) and Economics: A Very Short Introduction (2007).

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