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Gunnar Myrdal
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Gunnar Myrdal

1898 – 1987 · aged 89

Swedish economist (1898–1987)

Born
6 Dec 1898 · Skattunge Parish
Died
17 May 1987 · Danderyd
Part ofSweden800 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 102 years
  1. 6 Dec 1898BornBorn in Skattunge Parish
  2. 1933 – 1947RoleProfessor
  3. 1936 – 1938RoleMember of the First Chamber
  4. 1939AwardFellow of the Econometric Society
  5. 1944 – 1947RoleMember of the First Chamber
  6. 1945 – 1947RoleMinister of Trade
  7. 1945AwardAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards
  8. 1947 – 1957RoleGeneral secretary
  9. 1950AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Nancy
  10. 1952AwardKurt Lewin Award
  11. 1960 – 1967RoleProfessor
  12. 1970AwardPeace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
  13. 1974AwardPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
  14. 1981AwardJawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
  15. 17 May 1987DiedDied in Danderyd

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1898 – 1987).

  1. 1898Spanish–American War
  2. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  3. 1914 – 1918World War I
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  9. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  10. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  11. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  12. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  13. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  14. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  15. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1938Munich Agreement
  17. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  18. 1939 – 1945World War II
  19. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  20. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  21. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  22. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  23. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  24. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  25. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  26. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  28. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  29. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  31. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  32. 1956Suez Crisis
  33. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  35. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  37. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  39. 1968Prague Spring
  40. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing

Biography

Karl Gunnar Myrdal ( MUR-dahl, MEER-; Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̌nːar ˈmy̌ːɖɑːl]; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." When his wife, Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982, they became the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first and only to win independent of each other (versus a shared Nobel Prize by scientist spouses).

Myrdal is best known in the United States for his study of race relations, which culminated in his 1944 book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. The study was influential in the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. In Sweden, his work and political influence were important to the establishment of the Folkhemmet and the welfare state.

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