Nobel Prize winner Gunnar Myrdal is best known for his book An American Dilemma, a classic study of America s racial problems that was chosen as one of The Modern Library s top 100 nonfiction books of the twentieth century.

The Essential Gunnar Myrdal covers the full range of Myrdal s writing, much of which has never been published in book form. It includes his early essays on economics, his thoughts on the population explosion, his discussions of the question of value in the social sciences, and excerpts from Asian Drama, his monumental study of the development...

The intellectual trajectory of Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician, brings us through many of the major issues in the world economy and politics of the 20^th century. This new volume explores Myrdal's work on three major themes:

• breaking away from conventional assumptions in Political Economy (and highlighting flaws that can still be found in today s teachings on Political Economy);
• finding ways of re-creating Europe after WW II, including the discussions between liberal Americans and European...

The intellectual trajectory of Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician, brings us through many of the major issues in the world economy and politics of the 20th century. This new volume explores Myral s work on three major themes:

• breaking away from conventional assumptions in Political Economy (and highlighting flaws that can still be found in today s teachings on Political Economy);
• finding ways of re-creating Europe after WW II, including the discussions between liberal Americans and European social democrats on how to...