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Gunnar Myrdal

1898 - 1987

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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. 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 and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." When his wife, Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982, they became the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first and only to win independent of each other (versus a shared Nobel Prize by scientist spouses). Myrdal 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gunnar Myrdal is the 30th most popular economist (down from 17th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 48th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Economist.

Gunnar Myrdal is most famous for his work on racial inequality in the United States.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Gunnar Myrdal ranks 30 out of 414. Before him are Ragnar Frisch, Paul Samuelson, Alexander Hamilton, Jean-Baptiste Say, Joseph Stiglitz, and Amartya Sen. After him are Henri Fayol, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Elinor Ostrom, Charles Cooley, Maurice Allais, and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Gunnar Myrdal ranks 22. Before him are George Gershwin, C. S. Lewis, Herbert Marcuse, Liu Shaoqi, Karl Ziegler, and Trofim Lysenko. After him are Julius Evola, Hans Krebs, Tamara de Lempicka, Karl Hermann Frank, Rudolf Dassler, and Isidor Isaac Rabi. Among people deceased in 1987, Gunnar Myrdal ranks 13. Before him are Lee Byung-chul, John Howard Northrop, Rita Hayworth, Andrey Kolmogorov, Fred Astaire, and Walter Houser Brattain. After him are Marguerite Yourcenar, William Stuart-Houston, William P. Murphy, Thomas Sankara, Jacques Anquetil, and Pola Negri.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gunnar Myrdal ranks 73 out of 1,879. Before him are Astrid of Sweden (1905), Eric IX of Sweden (1120), Henning Mankell (1948), Arne Tiselius (1902), Tomas Lindahl (1938), and Dolph Lundgren (1957). After him are Charles VIII of Sweden (1409), Charles XI of Sweden (1655), Magnus I of Sweden (1106), Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948), Carl Larsson (1853), and Marie Taglioni (1804).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Sweden

Among economists born in Sweden, Gunnar Myrdal ranks 1. After him are Bertil Ohlin (1899), Knut Wicksell (1851), Eli Heckscher (1879), Gustav Cassel (1866), and Erik Lindahl (1891).

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