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Sir W. Arthur Lewis, 1915-1990

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British development economist.  Lewis revolutionized the field with his seminal 1954 paper on the "dual economy" problem in economic development.

Originating from St. Lucia, Lewis was received his Ph.D. from the LSE in 1940, and after a period of lecturing there, Lewis became a professor at Manchester in 1947, picking up the Jevons chair in 1949.  In the late 1950s he was an economic advisor to the Kwame Nkrumah government in newly-independent Ghana, but left in 1959 to take up the organization of University of the West Indies.  In 1963, W. Arthur Lewis moved to the United States, to take up an appointment as professor at Princeton.

W.A. Lewis shared the Nobel Memorial prize in 1979 with T.W.Schultz.

 

  


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Major Works of W. Arthur Lewis

  • Labour in the West Indies, 1939.
  • Economic Problems of Today, 1940.
  • "The Two-Part Tariff", 1941, Economica
  • "The Economics of Loyalty", 1942, Economica
  • "Monopoly and the Law", 1943, Modern Law Review
  • "Competition in Retailing", 1945, Economica
  • Monopoly in British Industry, 1945.
  • "Fixed Costs", 1946, Economica
  • "The Prospect Before Us", 1948, Manchester School
  • "Colonial Development", 1949, Transactions of Manchester Statistical Society
  • "The British Monopolies Act", 1949, Manchester School
  • "TheEffects of the Overseas Slump on the British Economy", with F.v. Meyer, 1949, Manchester School
  • "Sur Quelques Tendences Seculaires", 1949, Economie Appliquee
  • Economic Survey, 1919-39, 1949.
  • Overhead Costs, 1949.
  • Principles of Economic Planning, 1949.
  • "World Production, Prices and Trade, 1870-1960", 1952, Manchester School
  • "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor", 1954, Manchester School [pdf]
  • "Thoughts on Land Settlement", 1954, J of Agric Econ
  • "Trade Drives", 1954, District Bank Review
  • "Secular Swings in Production and Trade, 1870-1913", with P.J. O'Leary, 1955, Manchester School.
  • The Theory of Economic Growth, 1955.
  • "Patterns of Public Revenue and Expenditure", with A. Martin, 1956, Manchester School
  • "International Competition in Manufactures", 1957, AER
  • "Unlimited Labor: Further notes", 1958, Manchester School
  • "Employment Policy in an Underdeveloped Area", 1958, Social and Economic Studies
  • "The Shifting Fortunes of Agriculture", 1960, in Agriculture and its Terms of Trade
  • "Depreciation and Obsolescence as Factors in Costing", 1961, in Meij, editor, Depreciation and Replacement Policy
  • "Education and Economic Development", 1961, Social and Economic Studies
  • "Education for Scientific Professions in the Poor Countries", 1962, Daedalus
  • "Industrialization and Social Peace", 1963 in Conference Across a Continent
  • "Secondary Education and Economic Structure", 1964, Social and Economic Studies
  • "A Review of Economic Development", 1965, AER
  • Politics in West Africa, 1965.
  • "Unemployment in Developing Countries", 1967, World Today
  • Some Aspects of Economic Development
  • "Economic Aspects of Quality in Education", 1969, in Beeby, editor, Qualitative Aspects of Educational Planning
  • Aspects of Tropical Trade, 1883-1965, 1969.
  • Socialism and Economic Growth, 1971.
  • The Evolution of Foreign Aid, 1972.
  • "Reflections on Unlimited Labour", 1972, in diMarco, editor, International Economics and Development
  • "Objective and Prognostications", 1972, in Ranis, editor, Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations
  • Development Economics: an outline, 1974.
  • The University in Less Developed Countries, 1974.
  • "Development and Distribution", 1976, in Cairncross and Puri, editors, Employment, Income Distribution and Development Strategy
  • The Less Developed Countries and Stable Exchange Rates, 1978.
  • The Evolution of the International Economic Order, 1978.
  • Growth and Fluctuations, 1870-1913, 1978.
  • "The Dual Economy Revisited", 1979, Manchester School
  • "The Slowing Down of the Engine of Growth: Nobel Lecture", 1980, AER.
  • "The Rate of Growth of World Trade, 1830-1973", 1981, in Grassman and Lundberg, editors, World Economic Order
  • "Development Economics in the 1950s", 1984, in G.M. Meier and D. Seers, ed, Pioneers in Development [ch.5, full]
  • Racial Conflict And Economic Development, 1985

 


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