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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1979

"for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries"
Theodore W. Schultz Sir Arthur Lewis
Theodore W. Schultz Sir Arthur Lewis
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA United Kingdom
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA		 Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
b. 1902
d. 1998		 b. 1915
(in Saint Lucia)
d. 1991
 
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