Gunnar Myrdal
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Myrdal, Gunnar (6 Decenber 1898 - 17 May 1987)
An eminent Swedish economist, Myrdal was a public official and a sociologist.
His Crisis in the Population Question (1934), written with his wife, Alva, stimulated general welfare measures, and he headed Carnegie Corporation of America from 1938–1942, writing an exhaustively detailed study of African Americans in a book entitled An American Dilemma (1944).
When he signed Humanist Manifesto II, he was a professor at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. He was considered the foremost expert on the Swedish economy.
Myrdal was married to politician and diplomat Alva Myrdal in 1924, and together had two daughters, Kaj Fölster (mother of Stefan Fölster) and Sissela Bok, and a son, Jan Myrdal. Myrdal died in Danderyd, near Stockholm.
