W. Arthur Lewis

Saint Lucian economist and Nobel laureate (1915–1991)

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.

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