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W. Arthur Lewis, La chose publique en Afrique occidentale
No full textDecouflé André-Clément. W. Arthur Lewis, La chose publique en Afrique occidentale. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 8, n°29, 1967. Blocages et freinages de la croissance et du développement (2) p. 177
W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect
Get PDFThis paper reviews several themes from the writings of W. Arthur Lewis, both the first black Nobel Laureate in Economics and the first from a developing country, and examines them from the perspective of two to five decades of hindsight. The paper emphasizes three main interrelated aspects; economic growth, economic dualism, and the evolution of the economic order -the forces that drive the prices of goods and relative incomes across countries. Lewis\u27s messages still resonate today, as he foresaw the rise of industrial exports from developing countries-and also that it would not end the large gaps among nations\u27 standards of living. The paper both documents these rises and asks whether one could have predicted it from information available in the 1960s, or whether additional prescience was necessary
W. Arthur Lewis, Tropical Development 1880-1913. Studies in Economie Progress.
No full textBarral Pierre. W. Arthur Lewis, Tropical Development 1880-1913. Studies in Economie Progress.. In: Études rurales, n°66, 1977. p. 75
W. ARTHUR LEWIS AND THE ROOTS OF GHANAIAN ECONOMIC POLICY
Get PDFAll those who know Ghana know about the association of Nobel Laureate W. Arthur
Lewis with the country’s economic policy making before independence and in its early years as a
free nation. But there is less appreciation in development economics more generally of the
central role that Ghana played in Lewis’s thinking as a development economist, and there is less
appreciation among Ghanaians of how the Ghana experience left an indelible mark on Lewis in
the second half of his career. In this sixtieth year of Ghana’s independence, this paper attempts to
set out the deep connections between this giant of development economics and the evolution of
Ghanaian Economic Policy
W. Arthur Lewis and New World: Variations within the Analytic Framework of Neoclassical Economics
No full textSubstantively, the broad disagreements between the NWG and W. Arthur Lewis reflected technical rather than fundamental differences, as the main disagreements were internal to neoclassical economic theory. Lewis was aware that imperialism (1870-1945) retarded and/or constrained the space for capital accumulation in the colonies and that it produced and/or intensified economic inequality and limited social transformation in most colonies; however, this was not an original insight. Lewis said, the “backwardness of the less developed countries of 1870 could be changed only by people prepared to alter certain customs, laws, and institutions, and to shift the balance of political and economic power away from the old landowning and aristocratic classes.” He stressed that “the imperial powers ... allied themselves with the existing power blocs. They were especially hostile to educated young people whom, by means of a color bar, they usually kept out of positions where administrative experience might be gained, whether in the public service or in private business…. One result of this was to divert into a long and bitter anti-colonial struggles much brilliant talent which could have been used creatively in development sectors” (Lewis 1978: 214, quoted in Frieden 2006:91; see Girvan 2005; Boulding 1951: 216)
Applying the lewis model in industrialized countries: W. Arthur Lewis and the Dual Economy of Manchester in the 1950s
Get PDF© 2015 The University of Manchester and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. We document, for the first time, the institution-building activities of the development economist W. Arthur Lewis (1915-91) as founder of Community House and the South Hulme Evening Centre, two further education centres which sought to fight discrimination among the Afro-Caribbean communities of Manchester in the 1950s. We depict the struggle by Afro-Caribbeans to achieve a decent standard of living (and to escape from the 'subsistence economy' which provides the basis for Lewis' most famous model) as a game of snakes and ladders in which the two main potential ladders out of poverty are-as in many developing countries-first, the ability to generate non-wage income through self-employment and second, 'vertical social capital', i.e. membership of social networks of a kind which gave the employee the ability to fight back against discrimination. The most imaginative aspect of Lewis's design for his further education centres is his incorporation of activities which build vertical social capital alongside conventional vocational training. On the basis of both the qualitative evidence and an exploratory model of the Manchester dual economy, we argue that Lewis' social centres had a significant positive impact on Afro-Caribbean income and poverty levels, and that they still provide inspiration for development practitioners
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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