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Gunnar Myrdal
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Gunnar Myrdal | |
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![]() Gunnar Myrdal in January 1964 | |
Born | Karl Gunnar Myrdal 6 December 1898 Skattungbyn, Orsa Municipality, Sweden |
Died | 17 May 1987 Danderyd, Sweden | (aged 88)
Nationality | Swedish |
Fields | Economics, Politics, Sociology |
Institutions | NYU, Stockholm University |
Alma mater | Stockholm University |
Doctoral advisor | Gustav Cassel |
Doctoral students | Rudolf Meidner |
Known for | Monetary equilibrium, Circular cumulative causation |
Influences | Knut Wicksell John R. Commons[1] Raúl Prebisch |
Influenced | Ha-Joon Chang G. L. S. Shackle |
Notable awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1974)[2] Bronislaw Malinowski Award (1975) |
References
- ↑ Walter A. Jackson, Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987, UNC Press Books, 1994, p. 62.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974". NobelPrize.org. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1974/index.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-27.[dead link]