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Subject(s)

• Economists—Biography [Browse]
• Development economics—History [Browse]
• Lewis, W. Arthur (William Arthur), 1915-1991 [Browse]
• Ghana—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Africa—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Princeton University—Faculty—Biography [Browse]

Series

• Princeton legacy library. [More in this series]
• Princeton scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the twentieth century. In this book, an 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 decolonization, it provides a history of development economics as seen through the life of one of its most important founders.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 17, 2020).

Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1. Getting Started: Education and Race
• CHAPTER 2. The Colonial Office
• CHAPTER 3. Unlimited Supplies of Labor
• CHAPTER 4. The Gold Coast
• CHAPTER 5. Ghana’s Chief Economic Adviser, 1957–58
• CHAPTER 6. Ghana: Part 2
• CHAPTER 7. The West Indies, 1959–63
• CHAPTER 8. The Princeton Years, 1963-91
• CONCLUSION
• Bibliography
• Index

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ISBN

• 0-691-20261-3
• 0-691-20424-1

OCLC

1159420724

Doi

• 10.1515/9780691204246

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