First edition. 8vo. 453, [3] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge in brown, dust jacket (contents unmarked; jacket somewhat edge worn with minor loss to tips of spine and corners, spine panel slightly creased, still just about a very good copy overall). London, George Allen & Unwin, 1955.
A major contribution to development economics by the Nobel Prize winning Saint Lucian economist W. Arthur Lewis. ‘Here Lewis showed his knowledge that development was not a mere exercise in applied economic theory but had to take into account political, social, and cultural influences. In an appendix he even broach the topic of the links between growth and welfare’ (ODNB).
