The Caribbean in Turmoil: Prologue to a Biography

Barbara Ingham and Paul Mosley
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Barbara Ingham: University of London
Paul Mosley: University of Sheffield

Chapter 1 in Sir Arthur Lewis, 2013, pp 1-16 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Sir Arthur Lewis is known to many as the first black (Afro-Caribbean) person to hold a professorial chair in a UK university, and as a winner of the first Nobel Prize to be awarded in Development Economics. His achievement, in fact, was very broad, and he made important contributions not only to economics, but also to political science, history and education. He aimed not only to understand the world but also to change it (as he was later to put it, ‘half my interest was in policy questions’1) and his attempts, from the 1940s to the early 1960s, to achieve a better and fairer world through social and economic reform rank equally with, even if they were much less influential than, the writings that made him famous.

Keywords: Nobel Prize; Autobiographical Account; Intellectual Biography; White Planter; Professorial Chair (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137366436_1

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