Sir Arthur Lewis: A Biography

✍ Scribed by Barbara Ingham, Paul Mosley (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 352
Series: Great Thinkers in Economics Series
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The Caribbean in Turmoil: Prologue to a Biography....Pages 1-16
‘Marvellous intellectual feasts’: The LSE Years, 1933–48....Pages 17-42
The Colonial Office and the Genesis of Development Economics....Pages 43-84
‘It takes hard work to be accepted in the academic world’: Manchester University, 1948–57....Pages 85-118
The Manchester Years: Lewis as Social and Political Activist....Pages 119-144
Why Visiting Economists Fail: The Turning Point in Ghana 1957–8....Pages 145-170
Disenchantment in the Caribbean, 1958–63....Pages 171-211
Princeton and Retirement, 1963–91....Pages 212-260
‘The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge’: Lewis’s Legacy....Pages 261-269
Back Matter....Pages 270-342

✦ Subjects

Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; International Economics; Economic History; Development Economics; Methodology/History of Economic Thought; History of the Americas

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