Spash, Clive L., Hache, Frédéric. 2021. The Dasgupta Review deconstructed: an exposé of biodiversity economics. Globalizations. 1-24.

RIS

@ARTICLE{Spash2021,
title = {The Dasgupta Review deconstructed: an exposé of biodiversity economics},
author = {Clive L. Spash and Frédéric Hache},
year = {2021},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2021.1929007},
url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14747731.2021.1929007},
language = {EN},
pages = {1-24},
journal = {Globalizations},
abstract = {The Dasgupta Review is the latest attempt at justifying financialisation of Nature, but also much more. It represents a high point in applying concepts of capital and wealth accumulation comprehensively to all aspects of human and non-human existence. Unravelling the flaws in the arguments, contradictions and underlying motives requires both understanding of and cutting through the specialist language, neoclassical economic models, mathematics and rhetoric. We offer a critical guide to and deconstruction of Dasgupta’s biodiversity economics and reveal its real aim. Framing critical biodiversity loss as an issue of asset management and population size is a blind to avoid questioning economic growth, which remains unchallenged and depoliticized despite apparently recognizing natural limits. Dasgupta ignores long-standing problems with capital theory and social cost-benefit analysis. Rather than a scientific review of biodiversity economics he offers impossible to achieve valuation, based on old flawed theories and methods, embedded in an unsavoury political economy.},
}