Gunnar Myrdal
Economist, Academic
1898 – 1987
Who was Gunnar Myrdal?
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." He is best known in the United States for his study of race relations, which culminated in his book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. The study was influential in the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision Brown v. Board of Education.
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- Born
- Dec 6, 1898
Gagnef - Spouses
- Alva Myrdal
(1924 - )
- Alva Myrdal
- Children
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Profession
- Education
- Juris Doctor
Economics
( - 1927) - Stockholm University
Law
( - 1923)
- Juris Doctor
- Employment
- Stockholm School of Economics
(1933 - 1947)
- Stockholm School of Economics
- Died
- May 17, 1987
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on July 23, 2013
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