Everything about Arthur Lewis Economist totally explained
Sir William Arthur Lewis (
January 23,
1915 –
June 15,
1991) was a
Saint Lucian economist well known for his contributions in the field of
economic development. In
1979 he won the
Nobel Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a
Nobel Prize in a category other than peace.
Biography
Lewis was born in
Saint Lucia, then still a British territory in the
Caribbean. After gaining his BSc. in 1937 and Ph.D. in 1940 at the
London School of Economics, Lewis lectured at the
University of Manchester before being appointed
Vice Chancellor of the
University of the West Indies in 1959. In
1963 he was both knighted and appointed a
University Professor (a position in which he'd remain until his retirement in 1983) and in
1970 became director of the
Caribbean Development Bank. He died on
June 15,
1991 in
Bridgetown, Barbados and was buried in the grounds of the St Lucian community college named in his honour.
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.
Sources
- Biography
- Breit, William and Barry T. Hirsch (Eds. 2004). Lives of the Laureates(4th ed.). Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-52450-3.
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