Gunnar Myrdal Biography

Gunnar Myrdal biography

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NAME: Gunnar Myrdal
OCCUPATION: Economist, Journalist, Sociologist
BIRTH DATE: December 06, 1898
DEATH DATE: May 17, 1987
EDUCATION: Stockholm University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Gustafs, Sweden
PLACE OF DEATH: Stockholm, Sweden
Full Name: Karl Gunnar Myrdal
AKA: Gunnar Myrdal

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Nobel Prize-winning Swedish economist and sociologist Gunner Myrdal is regarded as a major theorist of international relations and developmental economics.

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Gunnar Myrdal was born December 6, 1898, in Gustafs, Sweden. Until the early 1930s, he emphasized pure theory, in sharp contrast to his later concern with applied economics and social problems. Myrdal applied this theoretical approach to macroeconomics in 1931, when, as a member of the Stockholm school of economics, he delivered the lectures resulting in Monetary Equilibrium (1939). Myrdal died in Stockholm on May 17, 1987.