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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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- Lifespan
- 1915–1991
- Nationality
- GB, LC
- Role / Field
- Economists, Ekonomisci i ekonomistki, Ekonomisci, International relations, Ekonomia, Economics
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Male
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Arthur
- Family name
- Lewis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Castries
- Place of death
- Bridgetown
- Occupation
- researcher
- Position held
- president
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Field of work
- economics
- Image
- Arthur Lewis (1915-1991).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1915-01-23
- date of death
- 1991-06-15
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- Sir William Arthur Lewis
- Commons category
- Arthur Lewis (economist)
- interested in
- economics
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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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