On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us – Transforming Economics to Value Nature and Combat Climate Change

On Natural Capital

By Partha Dasgupta. Lays out a new approach to economics that asks, what if we were to put a value on nature just as we value everything else? Rooted in the human struggle against climate change, the books approach examines the existential need to rethink our relationship to nature and see its preservation as an economic imperative. Challenging much of economic thought that has come before, the author presents an urgent call to transform the focus and structures of global economics with a profound new model—one so radical that only an economist of his stature could make the world take it seriously. Read more.