W. Arthur Lewis ✓

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Saint Lucian economist and Nobel laureate (1915–1991)

About W. Arthur Lewis

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.

Notable works:

Economic survey, 1919-1939

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The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings. Alcoholic
Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment… Arguable

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