Abstract. Keynote address on the occasion of the 2005 SALISES Conference marking the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Sir Arthur Lewis’s Theory of Economic Growth. Summarises and comments on Lewis’s work on industrial economics, the history of the world economy, development economcs and the ‘dual economy’ model, the problem of the terms of trade, [...]

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This paper examines differences and similarities in the approach to economic development of the Plantation School of Caribbean economists and of W.A. Lewis by locating them within their respective theoretical frameworks. By tracing the evolution of Lewis’s thinking in three stages from Caribbean industrialisation to the dual economy and then to trade and development, it [...]

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