Karl Gunnar Myrdal (6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist, politician, and Nobel laureate. In 1974, with Friedrich Hayek, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena."
Myrdal was born on 6 December 1898 in Skattungbyn (now Orsa Municipality, D...
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Karl Gunnar Myrdal (6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist, politician, and Nobel laureate. In 1974, with Friedrich Hayek, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena."
Myrdal was born on 6 December 1898 in Skattungbyn (now Orsa Municipality, Dalarna County) and went on to graduate with a law degree from Stockholm University in 1923 and, in 1927, a doctorate in economics.
He was Social Democratic Member of Parliament from 1933 and Trade Minister from 1945 to 1947 in Tage Erlanders government.
Gunnar Myrdal himself is known for his 1944 study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, which influenced the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education to outlaw racial segregation in public schools. Myrdal was also a signatory of the 1950 UNESCO...
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