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Focusing on biodiversity loss, the report examines the urgent need for sustainable solutions to address this critical issue. It encourages a shift in mindset, actions, and metrics of success to effectively combat environmental degradation. By highlighting the current challenges and proposing transformative approaches, the report aims to guide individuals and organizations toward a more sustainable future.
Time and the Generations blends economics, philosophy, and ecology to offer an original lens on the difficult topic of global population. Partha Dasgupta provides tentative answers to two fundamental questions: What level of economic activity can our planet support over the long run, and what does the answer say about optimum population numbers?
Here Partha Dasgupta, an internationally recognized authority in economics, presents readers with a solid introduction to its basic concepts, including efficiency, equity, sustainability, dynamic equilibrium, property rights, markets, and public goods. Throughout, he highlights the relevance of economics to everyday life, providing a very human exploration of a technical subject. Dasgupta covers enduring issues such as population growth, the environment, and poverty. For example, he explores how the world's looming population problems affect us at the local, national, and international level.Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life. Here, Dasgupta goes beyond the basics to show it's innate effects on our history, culture, and lifestyles.About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
The book explores innovative methods for valuing and evaluating quality of life, emphasizing the critical connection between human well-being and the natural environment. Dasgupta seeks to enhance our understanding of how environmental factors influence our overall quality of life, proposing strategies for improvement. Through this lens, the work addresses the importance of sustainability and the interplay between ecological health and human prosperity.
In recent years economists have found the theory of games to be an attractive route for exploring imperfectly competitive markets. This collection of articles explores both the potential and the limitations of this theoretical framework.
A collection of articles examining equilibrium outcomes in social and economic environments which possess cooperative infrastructures.