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Sir Arthur Lewis :a biography /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sir Arthur Lewis :Barbara Ingham and Paul Mosley.
Reminder of title:	a biography /
Author:	Ingham, Barbara,
other author:	Mosley, Paul,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 342 pages)
Subject:	EconomicsGreat Britain.
Subject:	Great Britain.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137366436
ISBN:	1137366435 (electronic bk.)

Sir Arthur Lewis :a biography /
Ingham, Barbara,

Sir Arthur Lewis :a biography /Barbara Ingham and Paul Mosley. - 1 online resource (x, 342 pages) - Great thinkers in economics. - Great thinkers in economics series..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue, the Caribbean in Turmoil 1915-1933 -- 1. Marvellous Intellectual Feasts: The LSE Years 1933 - 1948 -- 2. The Colonial Office and the Genesis of Development Economics -- 3. 'It Takes Hard Work to be Accepted in the Academic World' -- 4. Manchester University (1948-57) -- 5. The Manchester Years (1948-57): Lewis as a Social and Political Activist -- 6. Why Visiting Economists Fail: The Turning Point in Ghana 1957-58 -- 7. Disenchantment in the Caribbean, 1958-63 -- 8. Princeton and Retirement, 1963-1991 -- 9. 'The Fundamental Cure for Poverty is Not Money But Knowledge': -- Lewis' Legacy.

Why are poor countries poor? How can they get out of the poverty trap? Sir Arthur Lewis (1915-1991) was the first person to answer these questions in a systematic way. But he was much more than this; he was also the first Afro-Caribbean to be a professor at a British university, and the first black man to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. He had to fight against prejudice, in a way which for us, the best part of a century later ,is hard to imagine. Lewis was also more than an academic economist. He believed 'that economics 'concerns life more than numbers', and wrote in a simple style, accessible to all. In Africa, the West Indies and Moss Side (Manchester) in the 1950s and early 1960s, side by side with his academic work, he was also working as an activist to try and achieve a fair deal for the poor. But those attempts ended in frustration, and he was astonished to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1979, when he thought he had been forgotten. Barbara Ingham and Paul Mosley's biography describes the man, and the social relationships, behind these astonishing achievements. Although Lewis liked to present himself as a rational individualist who worked his way up by himself, both the ladders he managed to climb, and the snakes he often slipped down, cannot be understood without considering Lewis' friendships, rivalries and the structures of the societies in which he attempted, sometimes happily and sometimes disastrously, to intervene.

ISBN: 1137366435 (electronic bk.)

Source: 518266Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

687978
Lewis, W. Arthur
1915-1991.Subjects--Topical Terms:

460323
Economics
--Great Britain.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

287994
Great Britain.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

502381
Biography.

LC Class. No.: HB103.L49 / I54 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 330.092

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