# W. Arthur Lewis

> The only Black economist to win the Nobel Prize, and the architect of a model that explained how poor countries could industrialize by pulling surplus labor out of subsistence farming into factories.

*Saint Lucian economist (1915–1991)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1915-01-23
- **Died:** 1991-06-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Saint Lucia on 23 January 1915, Lewis built a career that led him to Princeton, where he became the James Madison Professor of Political Economy. His 1954 paper "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour" introduced the dual-sector model: a framework showing how economies with vast agricultural populations and surplus labor could fuel industrial growth by shifting workers into a modern capitalist sector. The insight reshaped development economics and earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize, a distinction no other Black economist has claimed. He died on 15 June 1991.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Economics, #20th Century

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