This VSI shows how economics uncovers these processes, finds explanations for them, and how it forms policies and solutions, along the way providing an intelligent and accessible introduction to key economic factors and concepts such as: individual choices, national policies, efficiency, equity, development, sustainability, dynamic equilibrium, property rights, markets, and public goods. They have three children, Zubeida Dasgupta-Clark (an educational psychologist), Shamik (a philosophy professor) and Aisha (who works on reproductive health in poor countries).

The former activity involves finding explanations, while the latter tries to identify policy prescriptions. The book, Economics: A Very Short introduction is a nexus of a global strategy with instances from day-to-day life by Partha Dasgupta. I think it could have benefited from more examples, but I guess it couldn't have been a very short introduction with them, could it?In subsequent chapters, he considers communities, markets and households, trying to develop and explain factors common to both the United States and the Ethiopian village. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. As in, that stuff that happened a long, long time ago, but there is no modern history because we now have the science of (liberal) economics and political "independence"/ "democracy"! All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.

I don't necessarily agree or disagree with her viewpoints, but books that are supposed to be references to technical subjects like economics shouldn't have the facts clouded with opinion and rhetoric. Imagine that, a question of real-world social concern, and here I am thinking (mainstream) “economics” is the field of selfish individuals abstracted from social context, simply bartering to maximize utility, resulting in harmonious equilibriums. Unlike some scientists who might try to minimize ethical, philosophical questions, Dasgupta is quite clear that ethical commitments are a driving force behind economics and politics.It was abundantly clear to me that the author had an agenda when writing this book and was not shy about it. The descriptions of markets and communities are probably the highlight of the book and show excellently that methods from the discipline can be versatile and illuminating.

Becky's father is a successful attorney in a law firm while Desta's father is a subsistence farmer on a small plot. Dasgupta helped me see different ways of thinking about important matters, which is a worthwhile accomplishment and the goal of a "very short introduction". If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society.Stunted and wasted lives aren't caused by the 'impossibility theorems' I have reported in this monograph. The discipline also tries to identify ways to influence these processes so as to improve the prospects of those who are hugely constrained in what they can be and do. He presents an important chapter on science and technology and on the institutional structures which allow their development. Dasgupta was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his work in economics and has written many important books and studies.

While the author ambles through a few pertinent paragraphs in the first half of the book, the second half is almost completely divorced from the subject matter.For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Not really what I was looking for - which was more clarity on some of the fundamentals of practical economic theory at government level.