Google today celebrates professor, economist, and author Sir W Arthur Lewis with a Doodle. Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University.
Sir Lewis was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics on this day in 1979, 41 years ago. He was awarded the Nobel prize for his work to model the economic forces that impact developing countries. Sir Lewis is considered one of the pioneers of modern development economics.
Lewis attended the London School of Economics after winning a government scholarship. He graduated in 1937 and received a Ph.D. in economics there in 1940. He was a lecturer at the school from 1938 to 1947, professor of economics at the University of Manchester from 1947 to 1958, principal of University College of the West Indies in 1959–62, and professor at Princeton University from 1963 to 1983. He served as an adviser on economic development to many international commissions and to several African, Asian, and Caribbean governments. He helped establish, and in 1970–73 headed the Caribbean Development Bank. Lewis was knighted in 1963.
He wrote several books, including The Principles of Economic Planning (1949), The Theory of Economic Growth (1955), Development Planning (1966), Tropical Development 1880–1913 (1971), and Growth and Fluctuations 1870–1913 (1978).
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