Arthur Lewis
Academic and Economist
Review of The Box...doors. In the case of "The Box," Kelly's adaptation of a Richard Matheson story, the door in question belongs to NASA scientist Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and his wife, Norma (Cameron Diaz), who are snug in their beds one day in 1976... In this article: The Box, Arthur Lewis, Richard Kelly, Donnie Darko, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Southland Tales, Frank Langella, and Corvette |
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The Huffington Post | November 06, 2009
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: The Box
...Richard Matheson, is set in 1976, to tie it to the Mars landing program that produced the first photos from that planet's surface. Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) is a NASA scientist who worked on that program and who is awaiting approval to...
In this article: The Box, Richard Kelly, Huff Post, Where the Wild Things Are, Richard Matheson, Horror film, and James Marsden
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Entertainment Weekly | November 05, 2009
The Box
...certainly sucks you in, though. In this ominous yet vague sci-fi conspiracy thriller set in 1976 in Langley, Va., NASA researcher Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and his wife, Norma (Cameron Diaz), receive a mysterious ''gift'' on their...
In this article: The Box, Frank Langella, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Donnie Darko, and Button, Button
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Arthur Lewis (economist)
Sir William Arthur Lewis (January 23, 1915 June 15, 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist well known for his contributions in the field of economic development. In 1979 he won the Nobel Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to...
In this article: William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize, University of Manchester, Nobel Prize in Economics, Princeton University, London School of Economics, University of the West Indies, Caribbean Development Bank, Caribbean, and Bridgetown, Barbados
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Guardian | October 08, 2009
The Nobel prize for economics may need a bailout of its own Jayati Ghosh
...of economic knowledge so much as the biases and blindness of the jury. Only two people from developing countries have received it (Arthur Lewis and Amartya Sen) and both worked in the US and Britain. Only three with an interest in the...
In this article: Economics, Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel, US, Joan Robinson, Economic history, Derivative, Liberalism, Nobel prize in economics, and Joseph Stiglitz
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Wikipedia | October 01, 2009
Saint Mary's College (Saint Lucia)
...secondary school to produce a Nobel Lauriate having been the source of secondary education for the island's two Nobel laureates, Arthur Lewis and Derek Walcott. St. Mary's College was formally opened on 20 April 1890, three weeks after the...
In this article: Saint Mary's College, Saint Lucia, Castries, Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize, and San Fernando
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Wikipedia | September 15, 2009
1979 in the United Kingdom
...killer. 7 December - Lord Soames appointed as the transitional governor of Rhodesia to oversee its move to independence. William Arthur Lewis wins the Nobel Prize in Economics with Theodore Schultz "for their pioneering research into...
In this article: United Kingdom, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Golborne, Allegation, Metropolitan Police, and The Sun newspaper
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Seeking Alpha | July 28, 2009
What Economic Recovery?
...1940 net private investment was minus $3.1 billion. (Robert Higgs, Depression, War, and Cold War, The Independent Institute, 2006, p. 7). Arthur Lewis calculated that from 1929 to 1938 net capital formation plunged by minus 15.2 per cent (W....
In this article: Dow Jones, Dow, Ben Bernanke, M1, Unemployment, Robert Higgs, United States, and Economic history
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Wikipedia | May 01, 2009
Arthur Lewis Building
The Arthur Lewis Building, named after Arthur Lewis is located west of Oxford Road and south of the Manchester Business School, nearly a mile from the centre of Manchester, UK. Construction was completed in 2007, when the building was given...
In this article: Manchester Business School and UK
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Independent.co.uk - Books | February 12, 2009
Selected Poems, By Derek Walcott
...the tiny Caribbean speck that inspires some of the past century's most splendidly eloquent lyric verse. (The other is economist Arthur Lewis.) Ranging from In a Green Night in 1962 to The Prodigal in 2005, this balanced selection from his 11...
In this article: Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize, and Caribbean
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Independent.co.uk - Books | October 02, 2008
The Week In Books: Notes of genius from several small islands - Features, Books - The Independent
...speck of St Lucia - with a population of around 160,000 - would surely head the list. In addition to Walcott, economist Sir Arthur Lewis won his prize in 1979. Talking to a roomful of compatriots at the St Lucia High Commission in London a few...
In this article: Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Caribbean, William Shakespeare, London, Trinidad, Relativism, Populism, and Ethnic nationalism
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Sir William Arthur Lewis (January 23, 1915 June 15, 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist well known for his contributions in the field of economic development. In 1979 he won the Nobel Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in a category other than peace.
- Birth Date:
- January 23, 1915
- Death Date:
- June 15, 1991
- Place of Death:
- Barbados
- Religion:
- Protestant
- Nationality:
- Saint Lucia, United Kingdom
- University Attended:
- University of London
- Field:
- Economics
- Known for:
- Development Economics
- Industrial structure
- History of the World Economy
- Associated With:
- LSE (1938-1948)
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