African Business, February 1st, 2006
W Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics
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By Robert L Tignor
[pounds sterling]22.95 Princeton University Press
ISBN 0-691-12141-9
W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the 20th century. In this book, the first intellectual biography of Lewis, Robert Tignor traces Lewis's life from its beginnings on the small island of St. Lucia to Lewis's arrival at Princeton University in the early 1960s. A chronicle of Lewis's unfailing efforts to promote racial justice and decolonisation, it provides a history ...
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