Gunnar Myrdal : an intellectual biography
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Gunnar Myrdal : an intellectual biography
(Great thinkers in economics / series editor, A.P. Thirlwall)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- : hbk
- : softcover
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-175) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study examines the manner in which Gunnar Myrdal's intellectual style left an impact on the shaping of Sweden's welfare state, on race relations in the United States, on post-World War Two economic cooperation in Europe, and on the analysis of Third World economic development.
Table of Contents
Preface Prologue Beginnings and Early Intellectual Influences Early Challenges to Orthodoxy: The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory Theorizing about Macro-Economic Instability: Monetary Equilibrium Structuring Counter-cyclical Fiscal Policies in the 1930s The Population Question and Swedish Social Policy in the 1930s An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy Minister of Commerce and Economic Policy-making for Post-war Sweden, 1944-47 International Civil Servant and Studies of the International Economy, 1947-57 Asian Drama: Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968) Economic Policy Advice-giving for the Rich and the Poor in the 1960s and 1970s Epilogue
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