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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. [2] Lewis was known for his contributions in the field of economic development .
Initially enumerated in an article entitled "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor" written in 1954 by Sir Arthur Lewis, the model itself was named in Lewis's honor. First published in The Manchester School in May 1954, the article and the subsequent model were instrumental in laying the foundation for the field of Developmental ...
Sir Arthur Lewis Community College is the only community college in the island country of Saint Lucia. [citation needed] The college was established in 1985 and is named after Saint Lucian economist and Nobel laureate Sir Arthur Lewis. [1]
Sir Arthur Lewis became the London School of Economics’s first Black academic in 1938, and now has a building named in his honour. Sir Arthur Lewis became the London School of Economics’s ...
Sir Arthur Lewis Building in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Sir Arthur Lewis Building (formerly 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields and Her Majesty's Land Registry Building) is an Edwardian Grade II listed building on the National Heritage List for England, [1] and an academic facility of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), located on the south side of Lincoln's Inn Fields in Central London.
Sir Arthur Lewis used the concept of a dualistic economy as the basis of his labour supply theory of rural-urban migration. Lewis distinguished between a rural low-income subsistence sector with surplus population, and an expanding urban capitalist sector (see Dual-sector model). The urban economy absorbed labor from rural areas (holding down ...
William Draper Lewis (1867–1949), dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; founding director of the American Law Institute; William G. Lewis (1835–1901), Confederate general in the American Civil War; Sir W. Arthur Lewis (William Arthur Lewis, 1915–1991), Saint Lucian economist
Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor, Financial Stability, Bank of England; Sir Arthur Lewis (awarded Nobel prize in 1979), for his pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries. Masoud Nili, Iran's economics minister