ECONOMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunnar Myrdal has received more than 649,077 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Gunnar Myrdal is the 17th most popular economist (up from 32nd in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 62nd 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 17 out of 414. Before him are Frédéric Passy, Alfred Marshall, François Quesnay, Ludwig von Mises, Klaus Schwab, and John Law. After him are Paul Samuelson, Jean-Baptiste Say, Mario Draghi, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and Alexander Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Gunnar Myrdal ranks 18. Before him are William James Sidis, Stefania Turkewich, Herbert Marcuse, George Gershwin, C. S. Lewis, and Liu Shaoqi. After him are Leo Szilard, Tamara de Lempicka, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Julius Evola, Hans Krebs, and Rodion Malinovsky. Among people deceased in 1987, Gunnar Myrdal ranks 8. Before him are Rudolf Hess, Dalida, Carl Rogers, Primo Levi, John Howard Northrop, and Louis de Broglie. After him are Rita Hayworth, Marguerite Yourcenar, Fred Astaire, Thomas Sankara, Walter Houser Brattain, and Andrey Kolmogorov.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gunnar Myrdal ranks 48 out of 1,879. Before him are Charles XI of Sweden (1655), Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1778), Manne Siegbahn (1886), Allvar Gullstrand (1862), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), and Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755). After him are Carl Larsson (1853), Eric XIV of Sweden (1533), Raoul Wallenberg (1912), Benny Andersson (1946), Gustaf Dalén (1869), and Max von Sydow (1929).

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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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