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SUMMARY:Discounting the Environment  - Landolt & Cie Public Lectures
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sir Partha Dasgupta\, Univ. Cambridge\, winner of the 20
 02 Volvo Environment Prize\nDiscussions on the economics of sustainable de
 velopment invariably move to debates on our obligations to future generati
 ons. Choice of the rates with which to discount the future environmental c
 osts and benefits of current decisions is central to those debates. Prof. 
 Dasgupta will present the ethical framework that has informed recent discu
 ssions on the subject by considering the economics of climate change. He w
 ill identify the source of the vigorous disagreements we have witnessed in
  the recent literature and then argue that the ethical framework that has 
 been adopted by the protagonists is misconceived. Prof. Dasgupta will sugg
 est that sustainable development doesn't so much involve an ethical proble
 m facing the generations as it involves bargaining among contemporaries. S
 ir Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the Unive
 rsity of Cambridge\, Fellow of St John's College\, Cambridge\, and Profess
 or of Environmental and Development Economics at the University of Manches
 ter. Professor Dasgupta is\, among others\, a Fellow of the Econometric So
 ciety\, of the Royal Society\, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social 
 Sciences\, was co-winner of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize\, and was nam
 ed Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her Birthday Honou
 rs List in 2002 for "services to economics". His research interests have c
 overed welfare and development economics\, the economics of technological 
 change\, population\, environmental and resource economics\, the theory of
  games\, and the economics of undernutrition.
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