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, the necessity for an agicultural revolution, the case of industrialization, the role of education and the imperative of regional integration. Concludes that Lewis’s work as an Applied Economist was motivated by his being an ‘anti-imperalist, a nationalist, a regionalist and a social democrat’; and that ‘his work calls us to put professional training at the service of community’ .

(Social and Economic Studies, 54, 3; September 2005; 10-25.)

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