This video tribute from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs commemorates Lewis’ life and scholarship.
Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979. He served on Princeton’s faculty from 1963 to 1983 and was the University’s first black full professor.
Credits: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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