W. Arthur Lewis

24 featured booksW. Arthur Lewis

Sir William Arthur Lewis (23 January 1915—15 June 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist well known for his contributions in the field of economic development. In 1979 he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in a category other than peace. The fourth of five children of George and Ida Lewis, who had migrated from Antigua shortly after the turn of the century. His father George died when Arthur turned seven and consequently all five Lewis children were raised by the mother. Arthur was a gifted student and was promoted two classes ahead of his age. After finishing school at the age of fourteen, Lewis worked as a clerk, while waiting to take his university entrance exam. During this time he met Eric Williams, the future first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and the two were to remain lifelong friends. After gaining his Bachelor of Science degree in 1937 and a Ph.D. degree in 1940 at the London School of Economics he was a member of the staff at the LSE until 1948. Lewis lectured at the University of Manchester from 1948 until 1957. When Ghana gained independence in 1957, Lewis became the country's first economic advisor, helping to draw up its first Five Year Development Plan (1959–1963). In 1959 he was appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies. In 1963 he was knighted, and was also appointed a University Professor at Princeton University, a position he retained until his retirement in 1983. In 1970 Lewis became director of the Caribbean Development Bank. Lewis' achievements have been recognised by the naming of "The Arthur Lewis Building" (opened in 2007) at the University of Manchester where he once lectured. He received the Nobel prize in Economics in 1979. He died on 15 June 1991 in Bridgetown, Barbados and was buried in the grounds of the St Lucian community college named in his honour.

Search this author Open first work

OL117304A

Overview

Catalog identity and bibliographic footprint for this author.

24 representative editions

Author pages in Bookitis are intended to show only works actually attributed to the author and a representative edition for each of those works.

Catalog identity

How this author appears inside the active Bookitis catalog.

Display name
W. Arthur Lewis
Personal name
W. Arthur Lewis
Source identifier
OL117304A

Featured books

Representative editions for works actually authored by this person.

Works in catalog

Quick navigation into the work-level grouping pages behind the featured books.

Development Planning
Representative edition published 2003
Open Work
Economic Survey 1919-1939
Representative edition published 2003
Open Work
Overhead Costs
Representative edition published 2003
Open Work
Principles of Economic Planning
Representative edition published 2003
Open Work
Theory of Economic Growth
Representative edition published 2003
Open Work
Racial conflict and economic development
Representative edition published 1985
Open Work
Selected economic writings of W. Arthur Lewis
Representative edition published 1983
Open Work
Politics in West Africa
Representative edition published 1981
Open Work
Growth and fluctuations, 1870-1913
Representative edition published 1978
Open Work
The evolution of the international economic order
Representative edition published 1978
Open Work
Tropical development, 1880-1913
Representative edition published 1970
Open Work
Some aspects of economic development
Representative edition published 1969
Open Work
The principles of economic planning
Representative edition published 1969
Open Work
Reflections on Nigeria's economic growth
Representative edition published 1967
Open Work
Development planning
Representative edition published 1966
Open Work
La planeación económica
Representative edition published 1957
Open Work
The theory of economic growth
Representative edition published 1955
Open Work
Attitude to Africa
Representative edition published 1951
Open Work
Economic survey, 1919-1939
Representative edition published 1949
Open Work
Teoría para el desarrollo económico y social del Caribe
Representative edition published 2011
Open Work
Development economics in the 1950s
Representative edition published 1994
Open Work
The face of man
Representative edition published 1994
Open Work
Sir William Arthur Lewis
Representative edition published 1994
Open Work
The Evolution of the International Economic Order (The Eliot Janeway Lectures on Historical Economics in Honor of Joseph Schumpeter)
Representative edition published 1992
Open Work