Till det svenska 1900-talets mest framstående och färgstarka intellektuella hör Gunnar och Alva Myrdal. Deras politiska idéer och forskningsinsatser kom att få stort inflytande på hur man utformade välfärdspolitiken under folkhemstiden. Tillsammans skrev de Kris i befolkningsfrågan, där de[...]
The intellectual trajectory of Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician, brings us through many of the major issues in the world economy and politics of the 20th century. This new volume explores Myral's work on three major themes: breaking away from conventional [...]
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, "organic" Gemeinschaft [community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating "sensible" citizens, dis[...]
Gunnar Myrdal's "An American Dilemma" (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture. Walter Jackson explores how the Swedish Social Democratic scholar, policymaker, and activist came to shape a[...]
An American Dilemma refers to the moral cont radiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discri mination. Myrdal provides insight into the contradictions of U.S. democracy. '[...]
This groundbreaking series brings together a critical selection of key papers by the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics that have helped shape the development and present state of economics. The editors have organised this comprehensive series by theme and each volume focuses on those Laureates w[...]
Providing an evaluation of the intellectual development of Gunnar Myrdal, this book emphasizes his methodology, and his belief about economics and the role of economics in modern society. Attention is given to how Gunnar Myrdal became an institutional economist, and how this perspective influenced h[...]
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Gunnar Myrdal och Sveriges ekonomiska efterkrigspolitik 1943â1947
De första åren efter andra världskrigets slut var en period av intensiva politiska strider i Sverige. Eftervärldens uppfattning av dessa strider bygger i hög grad på Leif Lewins vä[...]