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.

Myrdal was born onDecember 1898 in Gustafs, Sweden, to Karl Adolf Pettersson , a railroad employee, and his wife Anna Sofia Karlsson . He took the name Myrdal in 1914 after his ancestors farm Myr in Dalarna.

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