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On natural capital: the value of the world around us

On natural capital: the value of the world around us

Update: 2025-09-29
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Contributor(s): Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta | How should we measure economic progress in an age of ecological crisis?
Join us for a conversation with Partha Dasgupta, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, as he discusses his latest book On Natural Capital where he lays out a seminal and groundbreaking new approach to economics. Challenging everything that has come before, he asks, what if we were to put a value on nature just as we value everything else?
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On natural capital: the value of the world around us

On natural capital: the value of the world around us

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta