Gunnar Myrdal

A detailed Summary of 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.


* He was a Chairman of the Board of the Latin American Institute in Stockholm.

* The last prize he received among many others was the Malinowski Award by the Society of Applied Anthropology.

* Myrdal received more than thirty honorary degrees including Harvard University his first in 1938 where he gave the Godkin Lectures that year.

* From 1945-1947, Myrdal served as Sweden's minister of commerce; he left this position though to accept an appointment as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

* In 1961 Myrdal returned again to Sweden and was appointed Professor of International Economics at the Stockholm University.

* He was a Chairman of the Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).



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