Great to see Arthur Lewis as a Google Doodle today. I often reference him to new faculty: “I got into the history of the world economy because Frederick Hayek, then Acting Chairman of LSE Dept of Economics suggested I teach a course on “what happened between the wars” ...
... to give concreteness to the massive doses of trade cycle theory which then dominated the curriculum. I replied to Hayek that I did not know what happened between the wars; to which he replied that *the best way of learning a subject was to teach it*.” https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1979/lewis/biographical/
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1979

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1979 was awarded jointly to Theodore W. Schultz and Sir Arthur Lewis "for their pioneering research into economic developm...

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1979/lewis/biographical/
+ Dani Rodrik on Arthur Lewis:
Important when teaching students who want to learn Economics without Maths being their opening focus.
One more thing on Arthur Lewis: the double-Saint Lucia link to the Nobel with Derek Walcott. When they were growing up, the population of Castries would have been only a few thousand. http://saintluciaconsulateny.org/our-nobel-laureates/
One more thing on Arthur Lewis: the double-Saint Lucia link to the Nobel with Derek Walcott. When they were growing up, the population of Castries would have been only a few thousand. http://saintluciaconsulateny.org/our-nobel-laureates/
One more thing on Arthur Lewis: the double-Saint Lucia link to the Nobel with Derek Walcott. When they were growing up, the population of Castries would have been only a few thousand. http://saintluciaconsulateny.org/our-nobel-laureates/
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