Conference to be held at the University of Manchester
Part of the CEPR Macroeconomics and Economic History programmes
With generous support from STEG, The Manchester School, and the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester.
Arthur Lewis Lab Conference #6
Date:
14-15 November, 2024
Note: This conference is expected to take place offline only.
Conference title:
Economic Development and Structural Change: A Conference in Honour of W. Arthur Lewis
Keynote speakers:
Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Rogerson, Princeton University
Conference organizers:
Guillaume Blanc, Nuno Palma, and Ákos Valentinyi, University of Manchester.
Conference theme:
In 1954, W. Arthur Lewis published the pioneering article Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour in the Manchester School. It was a foundational scholarly piece for the field of development economics; see also this biography. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979.
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