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Arthur Lewis

1915 – 1991 · aged 76

Saint Lucian economist (1915–1991)

Born
23 Jan 1915 · Castries
Died
15 Jun 1991 · Bridgetown
Part ofSaint Lucia1915 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 87 years
  1. 23 Jan 1915BornBorn in Castries
  2. 1962AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Dakar
  3. 1974AwardHonorary doctorate
  4. 1979AwardPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
  5. 1986AwardHonorary doctor of the Paul Cézanne University
  6. 15 Jun 1991DiedDied in Bridgetown

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1915 – 1991).

  1. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  2. 1917Balfour Declaration
  3. 1917February Revolution
  4. 1917October Revolution
  5. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  6. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  7. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  8. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  9. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  10. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  11. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  12. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1938Munich Agreement
  14. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  15. 1939 – 1945World War II
  16. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  17. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  18. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  19. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  20. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  21. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  22. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  23. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  25. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  26. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  28. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  29. 1956Suez Crisis
  30. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  32. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  34. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  36. 1968Prague Spring
  37. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  38. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  39. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  40. 19781978 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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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