2025-09-29
1 小时 28 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Okay, welcome everyone.
So let me just describe what we're trying to do today.
So the format will be more of a conversation initially for about the first half.
We have an hour and a half between me and Partha.
And then we will open it out to questions from all of you.
And take those in groups of three.
Can you make sure that your telephones are switched off?
And as we go through the conversation, be thinking of questions that you want to pose to Partha.
But there's no guarantee I'll be able to answer his satisfactory back.
The place I wanted to start with and sort of follows on the conversation you're having in the green room is,
what kind of led you to the, sorry, can you hear me?
I know, sorry, I thought you were rich.
What kind of led you to, even before this book,
to this major focus on resources, environment, ecology?
Because, I mean, you, unlike many, economists were doing this for a very long time.
So was there something about your childhood?
Was there something about your education that led you to this area of work on natural capital?
That's a hard one.