An ongoing series from the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
in partnership with Sustainable Societies Initiative

A Dean's Lecture
featuring

Professor Partha Dasgupta

Moderated by
Gretchen Daily

 Ecology: The Missing Piece of Economics

Professor Partha Dasgupta has long been a leader in illuminating the importance of natural capital to economic prosperity and well-being, and in advancing new ways – beyond GDP – to illuminate nature in measures of economic performance, through a shift to inclusive wealth. He presents this case in his most recent book – On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us – Transforming Economics to Value Nature and Combat Climate Change – published in January. In this lecture, Professor Dasgupta asks what economic policy looks like when ecology is built into it, and why the two disciplines belong together.