Dasgupta was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 in her Birthday Honours List for services to economics and was co-recipient (with Karl Goran Maler) of the 2002 Volvo Environment Prize.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society (elected 2004) and a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society (elected 2005).
An official statement from Cambridge University proudly declared: "He is the first economist elected to the Royal Society."
He is a fellow of St. John's College, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the British Academy, foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary fellow of the London School of Economics, honorary member of the American Economic Association, member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences and patron of the Optimum Population Trust.
Book written by Dasgupta:
2007: Economics: A Very Short Introduction
2001: Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment
2000: Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective
1993: An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
1983: The Control of Resources
Image: The Nobel medal
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