论自然资本:我们周围世界的价值 （牛津通识 经济学 作者）

On Natural Capital : The Value of the World Around Us

基本信息

by Partha Dasgupta (Author)

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Imprint:Witness Books

ISBN:9781529144208

Published:24 Jul 2025

Weight:354g

Dimensions:153 x 232 x 23 (mm)

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书籍简介

“你从未听说过的最重要的人”——《纽约时报》

“帕萨·达斯古普塔将经济学与生态学相结合，为我们提供了亟需的指南针，让我们能够在最后一刻拯救自然世界，同时也拯救我们自己。”——大卫·爱登堡

“这是自亚当·斯密的《国富论》以来，对普通读者来说最好的经济学著作。”——保罗·R·埃利希

想象一下，一支足球队只以进球数来衡量其成功，而不计算失球数。这支足球队可能已经彻底输球而自己却浑然不觉。

自古以来，我们的经济模型就一直呈现给我们一幅不完整的图景。

这些模型和指标告诉我们，我们的经济是健康的，因为它们在增长。

然而，这并没有考虑到一个事实，即我们的增长是由一种我们免费获取并视为无限的资源驱动的：自然。几个世纪以来，我们一直将其视为两者兼而有之，但现在我们比以往任何时候都更加清楚，我们对自然世界的需求是不可持续的。仅仅看到局部已经不够了；是时候让我们的经济模型展现整体了。

在《论自然资本》一书中，著名剑桥经济学家帕萨·达斯古普塔爵士提出了一种开创性的经济学新方法。

他挑战了以往的一切，并问道：如果我们像珍视其他一切一样珍视自然，会怎样？

《论自然资本》是一本大胆而开创性的著作，它迫切呼吁改变全球经济的焦点和结构，它或许真的可以改变一切。

'The most important person you've never heard of' - The New York Times

'Partha Dasgupta provides the compass we urgently need by bringing economics and ecology together, we can help save the natural world at what may be the last minute and in doing so, save ourselves. - David Attenborough

'This is the best book in economics for a general reader since Adam Smith s The Wealth of Nations.' - Paul R Ehrlich

Imagine a football team which measures its success only on the basis of the goals it scores and doesn t count the goals it concedes. That football team could be losing right through without recognising it

For as long as they have existed, our economic models have served us an incomplete picture.

The models and metrics tells us that our economies are healthy because they are growing.

However, this doesn't account for the fact that our growth is driven by a resource that we take for free and treat as infinite: nature. For centuries we have been using it as if it were both, but we know now, more than ever, that our demand on the natural world is unsustainable. It's no longer sufficient to only see part of the picture; it's time that our economic models show us the whole thing.

In On Natural Capital, renowned Cambridge economist Sir Partha Dasgupta 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?

An urgent call to transform the focus and structures of global economics, On Natural Capital is a bold and groundbreaking book that could, truly, change everything.

作者简介

帕萨·达斯古普塔是剑桥大学弗兰克·拉姆齐经济学名誉教授，也是剑桥大学圣约翰学院的院士。他是英国皇家学会院士，也是美国国家科学院和美国哲学学会的外籍院士。他荣获2021年英国皇家植物园邱园国际奖章，并于2022年被查理三世国王授予大英帝国爵级大十字勋章，以表彰其“对经济和自然环境的贡献”。

Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was awarded the 2021 Kew International Medal of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and in 2022 was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire by King Charles III for ‘services to economics and the natural environment’.