Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first black man to win the Nobel prize for economics. However, he believed his contributions to the well-being of the poor through social and political activism were as important as his economics.

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Barbara Ingham is Honorary Research Associate at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London.
Paul Mosley is Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield

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Prologue, the Caribbean in Turmoil 1915-1933 1. Marvellous Intellectual Feasts: The LSE Years 1933 - 1948 2. The Colonial Office and the Genesis of Development Economics 3. 'It Takes Hard Work to be Accepted in the Academic World' 4. Manchester University (1948-57) 5. The Manchester Years (1948-57): Lewis as a Social and Political Activist 6. Why Visiting Economists Fail: The Turning Point in Ghana 1957-58 7. Disenchantment in the Caribbean, 1958-63 8. Princeton and Retirement, 1963-1991 9. 'The Fundamental Cure for Poverty is Not Money But Knowledge': Lewis' Legacy