Gunnar Myrdal
* Born in Gustaf's parish, Sweden on December 6, 1898* Graduated from the Law School of Stockholm University in 1923 and began practicing law while continuing his studies at the University.* In 1927 he received his juris doctor degree in economics and was appointed docent in political economy.* He studied in Germany and Britain from 1925-1929* In 1929 Myrdal took his first trip to the United States and stayed until 1930 as a Rockefeller Fellow.* While in the United States he published his first books including The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory.* He then returned to Europe and served for one year as Associate Professor in the Post Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.* In 1933 he was appointed to the Lars Hierta Chair of the Political Economy and the Public Finance at the University of Stockholm as successor of Gustav Cassel.
* Myrdal received more than thirty honorary degrees including Harvard University his first in 1938 where he gave the Godkin Lectures that year. * In 1944 the material collected in his study of the American Negro Problem was interpreted and published as An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. * He was a Chairman of the Board of the Latin American Institute in Stockholm. * Myrdal was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1938 to direct a study of the American Negro Problem. * From 1974-1975 Myrdal was Distinguished Visiting Professor of New York City University. * In 1957 he left this position to direct a study of economic trends and policies in South Asian countries for the Twentieth Century Fund. * Myrdal shared the Nobel Peace prize in economics in 1974 with Friedrich von Hayek of Austria. ish politics and was elected in 1934 to the Senate as a member of the Social Democratic Party. * Myrdal and his wife had two daughters, Sisseia and Kaj, and one son, Jan. The same idea became a leading feature of Myrdal's writings on development economics, in which he argued that, rather than rich and poor countries converging with economic development, they might well diverge, the poor countries becoming poorer as the rich countries enjoyed economies of scale and the poor ones were forced to rely on primary products. In this work, Myrdal presented his theory of cumulative causation, of poverty breeding poverty. * Upon returning home to Sweden in 1942 Myrdal was re-elected to the Swedish Senate, served as a member of the Bank of Sweden, and was Chairman of the Post-War Planning Commission. * He was a Chairman of the Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). * In 1961 Myrdal returned again to Sweden and was appointed Professor of International Economics at the Stockholm University. * The last prize he received among many others was the Malinowski Award by the Society of Applied Anthropology.
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