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Arthur Lewis
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Saint Lucian economist (1915–1991)
Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist who lived from 1915 to 1991 and made significant contributions to development economics. His work is important because it helped shape how economists understand economic growth and development in poorer countries.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1867
- Died
- 1946
- Works
- 23
Top works
- The finger of scorn, a play in four acts
- Miss Buzbys̕ boarders
- Cranberry Corners
- Valley farm
- The country minister
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,102
- Total plays
- 9,526
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT
· 1951 · cited 249,212x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,874x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,423x
- AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading
· 2009 · cited 33,739x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,160x
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Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1915–1991
- Nationality
- GB, LC
- Role / Field
- Economists, Ekonomisci i ekonomistki, Ekonomisci, International relations, Ekonomia, Economics
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 27 libraries
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1979
“for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries”
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Encyclopedic overview
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. Lewis remains the only black person to have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
W. Arthur Lewis was a pioneering development economist, especially famous for his “dual-sector model” of economic development. In his 1954 paper “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour,” he described a poor country as having two sectors: a traditional (largely agricultural) sector with surplus labor, and a modern capitalist sector. Lewis showed how surplus labor could be transferred from the traditional sector into the capitalist sector, fueling industrial growth.
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