The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from Saint Lucia
This page contains a list of the greatest Saint Lucian Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 414 Economists, 1 of which were born in Saint Lucia. This makes Saint Lucia the birth place of the 33rd most number of Economists behind Australia, and South Korea.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Saint Lucian Economists of all time. This list of famous Saint Lucian Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. W. Arthur Lewis (1915 - 1991)
With an HPI of 74.61, W. Arthur Lewis is the most famous Saint Lucian Economist. His biography has been translated into 51 different languages on wikipedia.
Sir William Arthur Lewis (23 January 1915 – 15 June 1991) 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. W. Arthur Lewis was a pioneering development economist, especially famous for his “dual-sector model” of economic development. In his 1954 paper “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour,” he described a poor country as having two sectors: a traditional (largely agricultural) sector with surplus labor, and a modern capitalist sector. Lewis showed how surplus labor could be transferred from the traditional sector into the capitalist sector, fueling industrial growth. economic development.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Saint Lucian economists born between 1915 and 1915. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Saint Lucian economists include W. Arthur Lewis.
