W. Arthur Lewis
Saint Lucian economist (1915–1991)
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Caribbean economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences—a first for Black recipients. Lewis spent his career at Princeton studying economic growth and development in the Global South.
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Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis remains the only black person to have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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