biography
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Myrdal, (Karl) Gunnar
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pronunciation:
[mürdahl]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1987)
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| biography:
| Economist, politician, and international civil servant, born in Gustafs Dalecarlia, Sweden. He studied at Stockholm, where he became professor of political economy (1933). He wrote a classic study of race relations in the USA (An American Dilemma, 1944), then was minister of trade and commerce in Sweden (1945–7), and executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (1947–57). His later works include The Challenge of Affluence (1963). He was awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize for Economics, principally for his work on the critical application of economic theory to Third World countries. |
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