The Essential Gunnar Myrdal

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The Essential Gunnar Myrdal covers the full range of the Nobel Prize-winning economist, sociologist, and politician Gunnar Myrdal's writing, some of which has never been published in book form in English. Best known for An American Dilemma, a classic study of America's racial problems that was one of the Modern Library's top 100 nonfiction books of the twentieth century, Myrdal also wrote widely on a full range of sociological and economic problems. This volume includes his early essays on economics, his thoughts on the population explosion, his discussions of the question of value in the social sciences, and excerpts from Asian Drama, his monumental study of the development of Asia.

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Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974. His books include An American Dilemma, Asian Drama, and Challenge to Affluence. Sissela Bok is the daughter of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal and the author of Lying, Mayhem, Secrets, and many other books on politics and philosophy. She is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Orjan Appelqvist is Associate Professor in the Department of Economic History at the University of Stockholm. Stellan Andersson is a historian and archivist at the Labor Movement Archives and Library in Stockholm.