Over the course of an extended career, Gunnar Myrdal - a Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economics in 1974 - made brilliantly original contributions to monetary theory and policy and to the methodology of economics and social science. This study examines the manner in which his 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.
'The publication of the first installments in Palgrave Macmillan's new series, "Great Thinkers in Economics," should be a major event for historians of economics.' - Roger Blackhouse, University of Birmingham
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
WILLIAM J. BARBER is the Andrews Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA. He has published widely on topics in the history of economic thought, on issues in development economics, and on the role of economists as policy advisers. He has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society. He served as a member of the research team, headed by Gunnar Myrdal, that produced the three-volume study Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations.
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Over the course of an extended career, Gunnar Myrdal - a Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economics in 1974 - made brilliantly original contributions to monetary theory and policy and to the methodology of economics and social science. This study examines the manner in which his 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.
Reviews
'The publication of the first installments in Palgrave Macmillan's new series, "Great Thinkers in Economics," should be a major event for historians of economics.' - Roger Blackhouse, University of Birmingham
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
Authors
WILLIAM J. BARBER is the Andrews Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA. He has published widely on topics in the history of economic thought, on issues in development economics, and on the role of economists as policy advisers. He has been named a Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society. He served as a member of the research team, headed by Gunnar Myrdal, that produced the three-volume study Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations.
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