Sir Arthur Lewis [electronic resource] : A Biography /
Mosley, P.author.
Ingham, B.author.
Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first black man to win the Nobel prize for economics. However, he believed his contributions to the well-being of the poor through social and political activism were as important as his economics.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrative Material; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 The Caribbean in Turmoil: Prologue to a Biography; 1.1 Lewis's trajectory; 1.2 Early life in the Caribbean, 1915-33; 1.3 The approach of this book; 2 'Marvellous intellectual feasts': The LSE Years, 1933-48; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The London School of Economics, 1933-45; 2.3 From undergraduate student to assistant lecturer; 2.4 Publications; 2.5 Communicating with the public; 2.6 The final years: the LSE post-war; 3 The Colonial Office and the Genesis of Development Economics
3.1 Lewis's hinterland: 'anti-imperialists' and the Fabian Colonial Bureau3.2 The Colonial Economic Advisory Committee, 1943-4; 3.3 Lewis and development policy after the war; 3.4 Lewis and the Colonial Development Corporation; 4 'It takes hard work to be accepted in the academic world': Manchester University, 1948-57; 4.1 Leaving the LSE; 4.2 Manchester's academic community; 4.3 Overseas assignments and explorations; 4.4 Annus mirabilis, 1954; 5 The Manchester Years: Lewis as Social and Political Activist; 5.1 The South Hulme and Community House social centres, Moss Side
5.2 Political action and the Labour Party6 Why Visiting Economists Fail: The Turning Point in Ghana, 1957-8; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Lewis in Ghana, 1952-8; 6.3 Was Lewis an exemplar of 'why visiting economists fail'?; 7 Disenchantment in the Caribbean, 1958-63; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Engagement with the West Indies, 1933-48; 7.3 Consultant on Caribbean development, 1948-58; 7.4 University College of the West Indies, 1960-3; 7.5 The Principal as an economist; 7.6 The Agony of the Eight; 7.7 Postscript: The legacy of the Caribbean Development Bank, 1971-4; 8 Princeton and Retirement, 1963-91
8.1 'The pleasantest country club in America'8.2 Picking up the threads, 1964-7; 8.3 Global economic history, 1967-78; 8.4 The Nobel Prize, 1979; 8.5 Winding down, 1980-4; 8.6 Last years, 1984-91; 9 'The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge': Lewis's Legacy; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first black man to win the Nobel prize for economics. However, he believed his contributions to the well-being of the poor through social and political activism were as important as his economics.
Lewis, W. Arthur (William Arthur), 1915-1991.
Economic theory.
International economics.
Economic history.
Development economics.
America—History.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
International Economics.
Economic History.
Development Economics.
History of Economic Thought/Methodology.
History of the Americas.