
W. Arthur Lewis
Sir William Arthur Lewis 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.
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Background
- Born in
- Castries
- Educated at
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Awards
- 🏆 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 honorary doctorate🏆 Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association🏆 honorary doctor of the Paul Cézanne University
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Arnold Plant
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1915
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Birth1991
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