partha dasgupta, born 1942
professor of economics
Sir Partha Dasgupta FRS, FBA is an Indian-British economist who is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom;[ Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the New College of the Humanities, London. Much of his recent work has been in the field of environmental economics. He was born in Dhaka, and raised mainly in Varanasi, India, and is the son of the noted economist Amiya Kumar Dasgupta. He is married to Carol Dasgupta, who is a psychotherapist. His father-in-law was the Nobel Laureate James Meade.
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