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Time and the Generations – Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet de Partha Dasgupta

Time and the Generations – Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet: Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series

Autor Partha Dasgupta
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 iun 2019
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?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231160124
ISBN-10: 0231160127
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series

Notă biografică

Professor Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is also the Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and is currently President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. His books include Economics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2017), Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment (OUP, 2004) and An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution(OUP, 1993).

Cuprins

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 DasguptäReprinted from Population and Development Review (September 2017)
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index