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Sir William Arthur Lewis

 

The programme honours the memory of the Caribbean’s most celebrated economist, the late Sir Arthur Lewis of St. Lucia.

William Arthur Lewis was born on 23 January 1915.

From 1960 to 1982, Professor Lewis served at Princeton University as Professor of Public and Internal Affairs, and later as Professor of Economic at James Madison University.
He was knighted in 1963. The late Sir Arthur also served as a Vice‐ Chancellor and Principal of The University of the West Indies, Chancellor of the University of Guyana, and Chairman of the Caribbean Development Bank. After he retired from Princeton in 1983, he was made President of the American Economics Association.

Sir Arthur also held the post of Visiting Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus from 1974 to 1979. Many undergraduate and graduate students in Economic Development were exposed to his wealth of knowledge and keen sense of detail.

Sir Arthur ranks among one of the most prolific writers in Economics. He published 81 professional articles over the period 1941 – 1988 and wrote 10 books. His 81 essays and collected papers are put together in a three volume compilation edited by the late Dr. Patrick Emmanuel of the University of the West Indies, Institute of Social and Economic Research (now renamed the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Research), and published in 1995. These volumes are currently housed in the library of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Research at the Cave Hill Campus.

We, the peoples of the Caribbean, have the commensurate responsibility of living up to the high ideals of Sir Arthur. Do spend some of your time at the Cave Hill Campus reading his articles. It is a pleasure that you should not deny yourself.

 

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