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Gunnar Myrdal

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Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist associated with the Stockholm School. He shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for work on money and economic fluctuations. He is also known for An American Dilemma, his landmark study of race relations in the United States, and for development economics work on cumulative causation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Date
1898-12-06 1
Death Date
1987-05-17 1
Nationality
Swedish 1
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Associated With School

Stockholm School, Schools of Thought
Source Gunnar Myrdal (Wikipedia)

Influenced By

Knut Wicksell, Economists
Additional Source WikipediaKnut Wicksell, Stockholm School / legacy section
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Sweden

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Karl Gunnar Myrdal ( MUR-dahl, MEER-; Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̌nːar ˈmy̌ːɖɑːl]; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist.
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1. Gunnar Myrdal (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section
    In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations.
  • Infobox, Born field
    6 December 1898
  • Infobox, Died field
    17 May 1987
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Wikimedia FoundationInfluenced By: Knut Wicksell, Knut Wicksell, Stockholm School / legacy section
Quote, Influenced By: Knut Wicksell, Knut Wicksell, Stockholm School / legacy section
In Stockholm, Wicksell associated himself with other future great economists of the so-called "Stockholm School," such as Bertil Ohlin, Gunnar Myrdal and Erik Lindahl.
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New World Encyclopedia: Gunnar Myrdal
New World EncyclopediaIn Group: Structuralist and Early Development Economists, Legacy section
Quote, In Group: Structuralist and Early Development Economists, Legacy section
Probably the greatest impact Myrdal has had on the social sciences is his focused and constant demand to draw on all individual and specialized social science categories in order to understand problems such as racism , underdevelopment, and all the problems the developing world faced.
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