Partha Dasgupta

Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, this work describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. Along the way, it provides an introduction to key economic factors and concepts such as individual choices, national policies, and equity.

A Very Short Introduction

Economics

Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the processes that shape their lives, their families, and their futures. He shows how economics uncovers these processes, finds explanations for them, and how it forms policies and solutions. Along the way, Dasgupta provides an intelligent and accessible introduction to key economic factors and concepts such as individual choices, national policies, efficiency, equity, development, sustainability, dynamic equilibrium, property rights, markets, and public goods. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Economics: A Very Short Introduction

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Time and the Generations

Ismail Serageldin

This book contains a number of papers presented at a workshop organised by the World Bank in 1997 on the theme of 'Social Capital: Integrating the Economist's and the Sociologist's Perspectives'. The concept of 'social capital' is considered through a number of theoretical and empirical studies which discuss its analytical foundations, as well as institutional and statistical analyses of the concept. It includes the classic 1987 article by the late James Coleman, 'Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital', which formed the basis for the development of social capital as an organising concept in the social sciences.

A Multifaceted Perspective

Social Capital

Giorgio Barba Navaretti

Karl-Göran Mäler

Domenico Siniscalco

Is knowledge an economic good? Which are the characteristics of the institutions regulating the production and diffusion of knowledge? Cumulation of knowledge is a key determinant of economic growth, but only recently knowledge has moved to the core of economic analysis. Recent literature also gives profound insights into events like scientific progress, artistic and craft development which have been rarely addressed as socio-economic institutions, being the domain of sociologists and historians rather than economists. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to bring knowledge in the focus of attention, as a key economic issue.

Institutions and Incentives

Creation and Transfer of Knowledge

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Amartya K. Sen

Robert C. Lind

Kenneth J. Arrow

Gordon R. Corey

Thomas Stauffer

J.A. Stockfisch

This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published in 1982.

Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy

Cu această monografie îți faci o idee despre felul în care economiștii abordează dezvăluirea traiectoriilor economice care marchează viața omului. Ea explică de ce avem nevoie de reglementări economice și cum să le identificăm pe cele bune și propune și explică modele. De asemenea, se referă la descoperiri empirice din antropologie, demografie, ecologie, geografie, știință politică și sociologie și, bineînțeles, din economie. Dar lentila prin care este studiată lumea socială este aceea a economiei. Se adoptă un punct de vedere al condițiilor de trai care pune accent pe alocarea unor resurse precare – printre contemporani și dea lungul generațiilor. Cartea ne poartă întro călătorie pentru a vedea cât de profund putem înțelege lumea socială din jurul nostru și nu numai.

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Anna McIvor

Peter Raven

Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.

New Perspectives

Biological Extinction

Partha Dasgupta

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