Karl Gunnar Myrdal (/ˈmɜːrdɑːl, ˈmɪər-/ MUR-dahl, MEER-; Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̌nːar ˈmy̌ːɖɑːl]; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist...
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García Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924; he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in...
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authored by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The foundation chose Myrdal because it thought that as a non-American...
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reasoning in economic topics was introduced mainly by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal in his 1927–39 work on monetary theory, who described it in this way:...
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Jan Myrdal was the son of two of Sweden's most influential 20th century intellectuals, Nobel Laureates Alva Myrdal (née Reimer) and Gunnar Myrdal, and...
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theory developed by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal who applied it systematically for the first time in 1944 (Myrdal, G. (1944), An American Dilemma: The...
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early years of the twentieth century. William Barber's comment upon Gunnar Myrdal's work on monetary theory goes like this: "If his contribution had been...
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Sissela Bok (redirect from Sissela Ann Myrdal)
Bok (born Myrdal; 2 December 1934) is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the...
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cross country skier Gunnar Möller (1928–2017), German actor Gunnar Molton (born 1993), drummer for Texas Hippie Coalition Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish...
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Question (Swedish: Kris i befolkningsfrågan) is a 1934 book by Alva and Gunnar Myrdal, who discussed the declining birthrate in Sweden and proposed possible...
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separate its scientific and non-scientific aspects. Critics such as Gunnar Myrdal (1954) and proponents of Feminist Economics such as Julie A. Nelson...
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Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal. The Austrian School owes its name to members of the German historical...
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(1935-2007), Norwegian anti-immigrant activist Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), Swedish economist and politician Jan Myrdal (1927–2020), Swedish author, leftist-political...
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Folkhemmet (section Myrdal's influence)
social engineering became an important part of folkhemmet. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal's 1934 book Crisis in the Population Question inspired a radical and...
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aimed to boycott the final meeting to protest against Olof Palme and Gunnar Myrdal because of their work against the NLF movement. NLF groups had met with...
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Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence...
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The Soft State is a term introduced by Gunnar Myrdal in his Asian Drama to describe a general societal “indiscipline” prevalent in Asia and by extension...
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"strong" secretariat. The ECE secretariat was led by Gunnar Myrdal in its first decade. Myrdal refused efforts by the Soviet Union to dictate what staff...
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Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich von Hayek, Hersch Lauterpacht, Lord McNair, Gunnar Myrdal, Harold Nicolson, Philip Noel Baker, Pierre Renouvin, Lionel Robbins...
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active from 1942 to 1945. Participants included Willy Brandt, Alva Myrdal, Gunnar Myrdal and Bruno Kreisky. The group focused largely on discussions of rebuilding...
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Nobel Prize in Medicine (1947). Gunnar Myrdal received Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences (1974), Alva Myrdal received Nobel Peace Prize (1982)...
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growth, which are called Kaldor's growth laws. Kaldor worked alongside Gunnar Myrdal to develop the key concept Circular Cumulative Causation, a multicausal...
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Hayek. Hayek won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 (shared with Gunnar Myrdal) in part for his work on this theory. According to the theory, the business...
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the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy's 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize), Chang argued that all major developed countries used interventionist...
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Berlin Harvard University Input–output model, Leontief paradox 1974 Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) Sweden "for their pioneering work in the theory of money...
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Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved April 20, 2011. Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma (New York, 1944), page 561. "Review: Strange Fruit:...
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became Gunnar Myrdal's main political opponent with respect to the currency crisis of 1947. Swedish historians tend to interpret this crisis as Myrdal's political...
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economists of the so-called "Stockholm School," such as Bertil Ohlin, Gunnar Myrdal and Erik Lindahl. He also taught a young Dag Hammarskjöld, the future...
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one of the early books of Gunnar Myrdal and wrote to him at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Myrdal sent him a reply and asked to...
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Academy of Sciences Former Governing Board Chairpersons: Alva Myrdal (1966–67) Gunnar Myrdal (1967–73) Rolf Edberg (1974–78) Hans Blix (1978) Karin Söder...
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