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The Seminar is part of the 鈥淧opulation Dynamics and Environmental Change Seminar Series鈥�, co-hosted by the 缅北禁地Population Division and convened in partnership with the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR), the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, and the Population Council.

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Venue
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Floor 3, New York, NY 10017

Presenter

• Population on the Global Commons: New Perspectives

• Sir Partha Dasgupta FBA FRS (Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) 

Abstract: The "tragedy of the commons," which is an expression of the externalities associated with a failure of societies to price a scarce good, has served as an illuminating metaphor for our excessive use of the biosphere. However, social scientists have not translated the excessive use of the commons into the analysis of our reproductive behaviour. In his lecture, the presenter shall first develop an account of the feedback and then point to a class of externalities that arise from the social-embeddedness of our preferences for both consumption and reproduction. The latter externalities have a different character to the ones experienced in the commons and can be weakened by civic engagement, they do not require centralized tools such as taxes and subsidies.