On Natural Capital

‘the most important person you’ve never heard of’ – The New York Times * The New York Times *‘Economics is a discipline that shapes decisions of the utmost consequence, and so matters to us all. [Partha Dasgupta] at last puts biodiversity at its core and provides the compass we urgently need… by bringing economics and ecology together, we can help save the natural world at what may be the last minute – and in doing so, save ourselves.’ – David AttenboroughThis is the best book in economics for a general reader since Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. * Paul R. Ehrlich *

Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the 2021 Kew International Medal of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and in 2022 was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire by King Charles III for ‘services to economics and the natural environment’.