Awards & Winners

Gunnar Myrdal

Date of Birth 06-December-1898
Place of Birth Gagnef
(Dalarna County, Gagnef Municipality, Dalarna, Sweden)
Nationality Sweden
Profession Economist, Politician
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 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." He 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. Supreme Court Decision Brown v. Board of Education.

Awards by Gunnar Myrdal

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1974


Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
(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.)