"I had no idea in 1933 what economics was, but I did well in the subject from the start, and when I graduated in 1937 with first class honours LSE gave me a scholarship to do a PhD in industrial economics."
— W. Arthur Lewis

January 1, 1970

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Princeton University facultyNobel laureates in EconomicsEconomists from the United KingdomFellows of the British AcademyNobel laureates from the United Kingdom
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Lewis (1979). "Sir Arthur Lewis - Biographical," cited in: Toporowski, Jan. "Sir William Arthur Lewis (1915–91)." Fifty Key Thinkers on Development (2006): 144.