Cornell CALS Joint Environmental Social Science Seminar Series

Sir Partha Dasgupta is one of the world’s premier experts in the field of economics. He is currently the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics and past chairman of the faculty of economics and politics at the University of Cambridge. From 1991 to 1997, Dasgupta was chairman of the scientific board of the Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and, from 1989 to 1992, professor of economics and philosophy, and director of the Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford University. His research interests have covered welfare and development economics; the economics of technological change; population, environmental, and resource economics; the theory of games; and the economics of under nutrition.

These talks are free and open to the public

Sponsored by: The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and the Institute for the Social Sciences

The participating departments for this seminar series include the Departments of Natural Resources, Development Sociology,

Communications, and the Dyson School