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W. Arthur Lewis. Sir William Arthur Lewis (23 January 1915 – 15 June 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. [2] Lewis was known for his contributions in the field of economic development.
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Sir Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist who shared (with Theodore W. Schultz, an American) the 1979 Nobel Prize for Economics for his studies of economic development and his construction of an innovative model relating the terms of trade between less developed and more developed nations to.
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Sep 30, 2022 · Learn about the life and work of Sir Arthur Lewis, the first Black Nobel Prize winner in economics and the creator of the Lewis model of economic development. The Lewis model explains how poor countries can grow by shifting labor from subsistence to capitalist sectors.
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Feb 16, 2021 · Arthur Lewis changed our understanding of how poor countries can improve their economies — and became the first Black economist to win the Economics Nobel
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Learn about the life and work of W. Arthur Lewis, a Nobel Laureate and a leading figure in the field of development economics. Explore his contributions to the theory of dual economy, industrialization, and economic planning in the context of colonial and post-colonial challenges.
Jan 9, 2006 · From the Jan. 9, 2006, Princeton Weekly Bulletin. W. Arthur Lewis was a man who broke boundaries. An economist who focused on the developing world, Lewis was the first black full professor at Princeton when he arrived in 1963. Sixteen years later, he became the first person of African descent to win a Nobel Prize in a field other than ...
