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Autobiography

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  • Lewis, Arthur

    (Princeton University)

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I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before. The islands were dissimilar in religion and culture, so our family had some slight characteristics of immigrant minorities.

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  • Lewis, Arthur, 1980. "Autobiography," Nobel Prize in Economics documents 1979-4, Nobel Prize Committee.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:nobelp:1979_004
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    1. Luigi Bonatti & Kiryl Haiduk, 2014. "Dualism and growth in transition economies: a two-sector model with efficient and subsidised enterprises," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(1), pages 1-16, March.
    2. Kirkpatrick, Colin & Barrientos, Armando, 2004. "The Lewis Model After Fifty Years," Development Economics and Public Policy Working Papers 30550, University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM).

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    Keywords

    economic development;

    JEL classification:

    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General

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