Gunnar Myrdal: An Intellectual Biography

✍ Scribed by William J. Barber (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 194
Series: Great Thinkers in Economics Series
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Beginnings and Early Intellectual Influences....Pages 1-10
Early Challenges to Orthodoxy: The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory (first published in 1930)....Pages 11-23
Theorizing About Macro-Economic Instability: Monetary Equilibrium (versions of 1932, 1933, and 1939)....Pages 24-37
Structuring Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Policies in the 1930s....Pages 38-51
The Population Question and Swedish Social Policy in the 1930s....Pages 52-63
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944)....Pages 64-85
Minister of Commerce and Economic Policy-Making for Post-War Sweden, 1944–1947....Pages 86-96
International Civil Servant and Studies of the International Economy, 1947–1957....Pages 97-120
Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968)....Pages 121-150
Economic Policy Advice-Giving for the Rich and the Poor in the 1960s and 1970s....Pages 151-162
Epilogue....Pages 163-168
Back Matter....Pages 169-180

✦ Subjects

Methodology/History of Economic Thought; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; Economic History

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