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View article: Impact of shifting of hormonal receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 on survival of non-metastatic breast cancer
Impact of shifting of hormonal receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 on survival of non-metastatic breast cancer Open
Objectives This study explores variations in hormone receptor (HR) status between biopsy and post-operative reports, as well as changes following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). The correlation between HR status alterations and patient su…
View article: Human Population and the Biosphere
Human Population and the Biosphere Open
The neglect of population in national and international discourses on environment and development has led to a misleading picture of policy options. This article reconstructs the language in which extreme poverty and economic development a…
View article: Sustainable matrix beyond GDP: investment for inclusive growth
Sustainable matrix beyond GDP: investment for inclusive growth Open
Measuring a country’s sustainable development by its gross domestic product (GDP) is insufficient to capture the loss of capital that determines future human welfare. To address this, we propose the inclusive wealth index, which integrates…
View article: Biodiversity: A Conversation with Sir Partha Dasgupta
Biodiversity: A Conversation with Sir Partha Dasgupta Open
This conversation with Sir Partha Dasgupta, moderated by Annual Review of Economics Editorial Commitee Member Tim Besley, focuses on biodiversity and its implications for economic thought and policy. A video of this interview is available …
View article: Sir Partha Dasgupta: Meeting the Challenges of Environmental and Development Economics
Sir Partha Dasgupta: Meeting the Challenges of Environmental and Development Economics Open
The Annual Review of Resource Economics presents Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta in conversation with economist Dr. David Zilberman. In the conversation, we follow Sir Partha's life from his childhood in Bangladesh, where his father was a di…
View article: The Economics of Biodiversity: Afterword
The Economics of Biodiversity: Afterword Open
View article: Narrow Identities Revisited
Narrow Identities Revisited Open
As part of an article symposium on their “Narrow Identities” (2019, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics), Partha Dasgupta and Sanjeev Goyal respond to commentaries by Jean-Paul Carvalho, John B. Davis, Peter Finke, and Miria…
View article: Population, Ecological Footprint and the Sustainable Development Goals
Population, Ecological Footprint and the Sustainable Development Goals Open
View article: Addressing our planetary crisis
Addressing our planetary crisis Open
View article: Introduction: Population and Ethics: Difficult Questions, Global Challenges
Introduction: Population and Ethics: Difficult Questions, Global Challenges Open
Undoubtedly, many of the most pressing problems of our age relate to changes in human population. Population growth and demographic transition are having profound social (Lutz, 2014), economic (Sin...
View article: Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere Open
View article: Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene
Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene Open
We consider two aspects of the human enterprise that profoundly affect the global environment: population and consumption. We show that fertility and consumption behavior harbor a class of externalities that have not been much noted in the…
View article: Global population size and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
Global population size and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals Open
View article: How Do Our Actions Undermine Nature?
How Do Our Actions Undermine Nature? Open
SummaryThe global growth experience since the end of the Second World War has given us two conflicting messages. On the one hand, if we look at the state of the biosphere (fresh water, ocean fisheries, the atmosphere as a carbon sink—more …
View article: Harvesting the Commons
Harvesting the Commons Open
We study a socio-ecological model in which a continuum of consumers harvest a common property renewable natural resource. Markov perfect Nash equilibria of the corresponding non-cooperative game are derived and are compared with collective…
View article: Association of pulmonary tuberculosis with lung carcinoma: An epidemiological study
Association of pulmonary tuberculosis with lung carcinoma: An epidemiological study Open
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious public health problem in developing countries, with India bearing highest burden. Lung cancer (LC), especially adenocarcinoma, is also increasing all over the world, with India having highest mo…
View article: Teratocarcinoma of maxillary antrum: A rare presentation of extragonadal germ cell tumor
Teratocarcinoma of maxillary antrum: A rare presentation of extragonadal germ cell tumor Open
View article: Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights
Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights Open
We review a class of adverse environmental externalities that accompany consumption and procreation.We also identify externalities that are traceable to socially embedded preferences for family size.Those preference structures can give ris…
View article: Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights
Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights Open
We review a class of adverse environmental externalities that accompany consumption and procreation. We also identify externalities that are traceable to socially embedded preferences for family size. Those preference structures can give r…
View article: Debreu’s social equilibrium existence theorem
Debreu’s social equilibrium existence theorem Open
Game theory is the study of strategic interaction: how a person should and will behave if her actions affect others and their actions affect her. (We use the term “person” here, but “agent” might be more appropriate, because, in the litera…
View article: Consumer Behaviour with Environmental and Social Externalities: Implications for Analysis and Policy
Consumer Behaviour with Environmental and Social Externalities: Implications for Analysis and Policy Open