Partha Dasgupta

University of Cambridge

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VII.8 Mathematics and Economic Reasoning

Princeton University Press eBooks (2010)

Partha Dasgupta

10.1515/9781400830398.895

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The Economics of Poverty in Poor Countries

Scandinavian Journal of Economics (1998)

Partha Dasgupta

This paper examines the links that have recently been studied between poverty, high fertility and undernourishment, on the one hand, and degradation of the local environmental‐resource base and civic disconnection, on the other, in poor countries. An account is offered of a number of pathways involving positive feedbacks that create poverty traps, in which certain identifiable groups of people in an economy can get caught even when the economy in the aggregate experiences economic growth. The relevant policy implications are noted.

10.1111/1467-9442.00089

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Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

Environment and Development Economics (1996)

Kenneth J. Arrow Bert Bolin Robert Costanza Partha Dasgupta Carl Folke

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Carrying Capacity

10.1017/s1355770x00000413

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Public Goods and Common‐Property Resources

Oxford University Press eBooks (1995)

Partha Dasgupta

Abstract The main part of this chapter discusses resource allocation mechanisms in seven sections: (1) resources and property rights; (2) markets and market mechanisms; (3) culture and market transactions; (4) externalities: public goods and common property resources; (5) infrastructure and fixed costs; (6) private and public realms, and private and collective (public) goods; and (7) knowledge, organization, and economic growth. An extra and separate section (designated Chapter *6) gives theoretical presentations on two aspects of public goods and common property resources: (1) the theory of public goods; and (2) the problem of the commons.

Common-pool resource

Externality

Private good

Common ownership

10.1093/0198288352.003.0007

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Economics of Social Capital

SSRN Electronic Journal (2005)

Partha Dasgupta

The literature on the idea of 'social capital' is now enormous. Offering an alternative to impersonal markets and coercive states, the communitarian institutions built around social capital have looked attractive to scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The literature in consequence has a warm glow to it. In this article, I first study the various contexts in which the promises people make to one another are credible and then suggest that the accumulation of social capital is a possible route to creating such a context. I offer a tight definition of social capital - namely, interpersonal networks - so as not to prejudge its ability to enhance human well-being. The links between the microfoundations of social capital and the macroeconomic performance of economies are then studied. I also show that economic theory not only identifies circumstances in which communitarian institutions can function well, but that it also uncovers a dark side, namely, their capicity to permit one group to exploit another within long-term relationships.

Microfoundations

Social Reproduction

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Securing P2P networks using peer reputations: is there a silver bullet?

Prashant Dewan Partha Dasgupta

Peer reputations have been used as security tools not only to motivate peers against cheating but also to protect good peers from the chronic cheaters. Although the reputation management techniques are not confined to P2P networks, they present novel challenges that were absent in central server based distributed systems. We enumerate these challenges and survey the solutions proposed by the community to counter them. These challenges include, but are not limited to, peer-identification in decentralized environments, reputation metrics, storage and exchange of reputation data. Finally we survey the applications which use P2P network paradigm and therefore can benefit from the reputation systems.

Silver bullet

Reputation management

Identification

10.1109/ccnc.2005.1405139

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The silent food war

Partha Dasgupta

10.14288/1.0102926

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Reproductive externalities and fertility behaviour

European Economic Review (2000)

Partha Dasgupta

Externality

Lift (data mining)

10.1016/s0014-2921(00)00039-8

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Histoires personnelles et pièges de pauvreté

Revue d économie du développement (2012)

Partha Dasgupta

Cet article developpe une theorie expliquant les raisons pour lesquelles une pauvrete profonde a une forte tendance a persister a travers des generations. L’auteur montre que les couts de maintenance eleves de la bonne sante physique et emotionnelle, qui sont des manifestations de la complementarite entre les apports dont les humains ont besoin pour survivre, sont a la base de l’existence de pieges de pauvrete. Ainsi, les atteintes nutritionnelles pendant les premiers stades de la vie d’une personne peuvent avoir des consequences irreversibles sur sa capacite future a acquerir le capital humain.

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ON THE ROBUSTNESS OF MAJORITY RULE

Columbia University Press eBooks (2014)

Partha Dasgupta Eric Maskin

We show that simple majority rule satisfies the Pareto property, anonymity, neutrality, and (generic) transitivity on a bigger class of preference domains than any other voting rule.If we replace neutrality in the above list of properties with independence of irrelevant alternatives, then the corresponding conclusion holds for unanimity rule (rule by consensus).

Robustness

10.7312/mask15328-007

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