The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
by William Easterly · 4 Mar 2014 · 483pp · 134,377 words
problems. Hayek depicted the solutions, including both private goods and government services, as emerging from competitive economic and political entrepreneurs. Hayek’s fellow Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal had very different views on how societies emerge from poverty into prosperity. The division between them was perhaps most fundamentally expressed by Myrdal’s opposite
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were the opposite of those ideas emerging about technocratic development in the Rest. Hayek’s former students and colleagues who were becoming development experts—including Gunnar Myrdal—were aware of Hayek’s ideas, but they chose not to debate them. The debate that never happened between Hayek and Myrdal in development is
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of these three component debates of the overall development debate. DEBATE 1: THE BLANK SLATE VERSUS LEARNING FROM HISTORY In 1955, the Swedish government appointed Gunnar Myrdal’s wife Alva Myrdal as its ambassador to India. Gunnar followed and soon got a commission to do a major development study of South and
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not learn from history by “adding to or improving the existing machinery,” whose approach was based instead on “completely scrapping and replacing” such machinery.29 Gunnar Myrdal early in his career had already provided an example of this Blank Slate mind-set that Hayek was criticizing in the rich countries. After Myrdal
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of China under the control of the People’s [Communist] Government,” Fong noted blandly that “a trend in that direction has been recently visible.”60 Gunnar Myrdal in 1955 cited a 1953 ECAFE Survey written by Fong in support of Myrdal’s position that “the state will almost inevitably have to take
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be able to play upon white Americans’ own racial problems at home. He also found an unexpected ally in an economist we have already met: Gunnar Myrdal. Myrdal was completing a landmark 1944 book on American racism toward blacks, called An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. Myrdal said that there
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and then one of his colleagues at LSE, but Lewis’s views on development were closer to those of Hayek’s would-be debate opponent, Gunnar Myrdal. Like Myrdal, Lewis claimed unanimity among development experts for a planning approach to development. In a 1949 book, he had written “the truth is that we
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, authored by Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, a forty-one-year-old Polish émigré economist in London. The World Bank would later anoint Rosenstein-Rodan, along with Gunnar Myrdal, Arthur Lewis, Albert Hirschman, and P. T. Bauer, as one of the “Pioneers in Development.”36 Rosenstein-Rodan actually applied his development ideas to Eastern
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hard to justify the dismissal of history at the beginning of official development in 1949. It is hard to justify the practices of economists like Gunnar Myrdal that start from scratch on the Blank Slate of an artificially created Third World. It is hard to justify the disqualification of the First World
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. 33. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTPUBLICSECTORANDGOVERNANCE/Resources/GACStrategyPaper.pdf, accessed September 6, 2013. CHAPTER 2: TWO NOBEL LAUREATES AND THE DEBATE THEY NEVER HAD 1. Gunnar Myrdal, Development and Under-Development: A Note on the Mechanism of National and International Inequality (Cairo: National Bank of Egypt, 1956), p. 65. 2
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. Gunnar Myrdal, An International Economy: Problems and Prospects (New York: Harper, 1956), 145. 3. Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, 3 vols. (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1968), quoted in
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, 13836. 8. Ibid., 13869. 9. Ibid., 13862–863. 10. Hayek, Road to Serfdom, 5842. 11. Hayek, Constitution of Liberty, 13840–41. 12. Ibid., 13920. 13. Gunnar Myrdal, Economic Theory and Under-Developed Regions (London: Duck-worth, 1957), 84. 14. Bruce Caldwell, Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (Chicago
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, The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics: The Myrdals and the Interwar Population Crisis (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1990), 94, 95, 90. 31. Beatrice Cherrier, “Gunnar Myrdal and the Scientific Way to Social Democracy, 1914–1968.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 31, Number 1 (March 2009): 33–55. 32. Hayek
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Barone (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 2011), Kindle edition, locations 152–57. 52. Hayek, Constitution of Liberty, 1980. 53. Hayek, Road to Serfdom, 180. 54. Gunnar Myrdal, Development and Under-Development: A Note on the Mechanism of National and International Inequality (Cairo: National Bank of Egypt, 1956), 63 and 65. 55. Quoted
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., 189. 59. Hayek, Road to Serfdom, 2216. 60. Hayek, Constitution of Liberty, 13831. 61. Hayek, Road to Serfdom, Kindle location 4350. 62. Ibid., 4070. 63. Gunnar Myrdal, “The Equality Issue in World Development,” 1974 Nobel Prize Lecture in Economic Sciences, March 17, 1975. Available at http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic
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, 1941–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), 8. 45. Horne, Race War! 5740. 46. Lippmann and Welles quoted in Wolton, Lord Hailey, 47. 47. Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944), 488
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, 5, 6, 12, 342–343 Mugabe, Robert, 216, 308–309 “My Plan to Fix the World’s Biggest Problems” (Gates), 123 Myrdal, Alva, 26, 27 Myrdal, Gunnar, 78, 100–101, 119 An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, 93–94 Asian Drama, 25, 30, 34 and authoritarian/technocratic versus free
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
by Adom Getachew · 5 Feb 2019
nation-building. In response to this structural dependence, nationalists envisioned an egalitarian global economy that required the internationalization of welfarism. Drawing on the work of Gunnar Myrdal, I thus characterize the NIEO as a welfare world that would enhance the bargaining the w elfa r e wor ld of the new economic
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disadvantaged, when they operate in the same area as the rich and the powerful.”73 Making a Welfare World Although neither Manley nor Nyerere cited Gunnar Myrdal in their arguments for an egalitarian global economy, his idea of a welfare world captures their vision. The welfare world emerged in a series of
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Lewis, 169–76; Ahlman, Living with Nkrumahism, 80–81, 130. 24. Tignor, W. Arthur Lewis, 176. 25. Nkrumah, Africa Must Unite, 97. 26. Ibid., 110; Gunnar Myrdal, Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions (London: Gerald Duckworth, 1957), 66. Myrdal’s Economic Theory was based on a series of lectures he had given to
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the National Bank of Egypt in 1955. The lectures were published as Gunnar Myrdal, Development and Underdevelopment: A Note on the Mechanism of National and International Economic Equality (Cairo: National Bank of Egypt, 1956). 27. Myrdal, Development and Underdevelopment
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and the International Economic Structure,” 37. 73. Ibid., 37–38. 74. Gunnar Myrdal, An International Economy: Problems and Prospects (New York: Harper and Row, 1956); Gunnar Myrdal, Rich Lands Poor Lands: The Road to World Prosperity (New York: Harper and Row, 1957); Gunnar Myrdal, Beyond the Welfare State: Economic Planning and Its International Implications (New Haven
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, CT: Yale University Press, 1960). For recent assessments of these texts, see Jamie Martin, “Gunnar Myrdal and the Failed Promises of the Postwar International Economic Settlement,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Hu manitarianism, and Development 8 (Spring 2017): 167
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World,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 8 (Spring 2017): 175–83; Isaac Nakhimovsky, “An International Dilemma: The Postwar Utopianism of Gunnar Myrdal’s Beyond the Welfare State,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and De velopment 8 (Spring 2017): 185–94. 75. Myrdal, Beyond the
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Economic Rights and Duties of States,” A/RES/29/3289, December 12, 1974, http://www.un -documents.net/a29r3281.htm, accessed November 15, 2014. 85. Gunnar Myrdal, “The Equality Issue in World Development,” Nobel Prize Lecture, March 17, 1975, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences /laureates/1974/myrdal-lecture.html
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Politics of Empire.” Polity 38 (October 2006): 543–55. Markell, Patchen. “The Insufficiency of Non-domination.” Political Theory 36 (February 2008): 9–36. Martin, Jamie. “Gunnar Myrdal and the Failed Promises of the Postwar International Economic Settlement.” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 8 (Spring 2017): 167–73
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.” Commentary 59 (March 1975): https://www .commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-united-states-in-opposition/. Muthu, Sankar. Enlightenment against Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Myrdal, Gunnar. Beyond the Welfare State: Economic Planning and Its International Implications. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1960. ——— —. Development and Underdevelopment: A Note on the Mechanism
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Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. ——— —. “An International Dilemma: The Postwar Utopianism of Gunnar Myrdal’s Beyond the Welfare State.” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 8 (Spring 2017): 185–94. Nicholadis, Kalypso, and Robert House
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most favored nation standard, 164, 165 Movement for Black Lives, 181 Moyn, Samuel, 92 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 176–77, 178 Mozambique, 87 Mussolini, Benito, 69 Myrdal, Gunnar, 144, 159, 160–62, 218n77; Beyond the Welfare State, 149, 161; Eco nomic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions, 148–49; “The Equality Issue in World Development
The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
by Derek S. Hoff · 30 May 2012
also divided on population matters. “Classical Manchester Liberalism [today’s anti-statist conservative economics] is founded on the Malthusian population doctrine,” observed Nobel laureate economist Gunnar Myrdal.14 Some conservatives have used Malthusian precepts to argue that charity is counterproductive because it merely exacerbates population growth. Meanwhile, the Left has accused conservative
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progressive way of thinking about state policy filtered through the prism of demography. In 1937, the Carnegie Corporation invited the Swedish population experts Alva and Gunnar Myrdal to the United States, primarily to study race relations.28 Gunnar’s famous resultant book, An America Dilemma (1944), helped spur the civil rights movement
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progression of speed and we are just not prepared to cope with it at all.”27 Leading economists also connected automation and unemployment. Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal, who warned that America’s economy was nearly stagnant when population growth was taken into consideration,28 believed that the combination of technological changes and
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Linder, The Dilemmas of Laissez-Faire Population Policy in Capitalist Societies: When the Invisible Hand Controls Reproduction (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997), chap. 5. 14. Gunnar Myrdal, “Population Problems and Policies,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 197 (May 1938): 200. 15. Linder, Dilemmas of Laissez-Faire Population
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May 2, 1935.” 27. For this committee, consult Frederick Henry Osborn Papers, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia (hereafter Osborn Papers), Folder “Council on Population Policy.” 28. Gunnar Myrdal, The Essential Gunnar Myrdal, ed. Örjan Appelqvist and Stellan Andersson (New York: The New Press, 2005), xxii. 276 notes to chapter three 29
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. Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (New York: Harper, 1944). 30. Gunnar Myrdal, Population: A Problem for Democracy (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1940), 130. 31. Ibid., 18. 32. Alva Myrdal
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in Family Politics: The Myrdals and the Interwar Population Crisis (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1990), esp. chap 3, emphasizes the Myrdals’ pronatalism. 34. Walter A. Jackson, Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 76. 35. A. Myrdal, Nation and
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, Subcommittee on Employment and Manpower, Nation’s Manpower Revolution, 88th Cong., 1st sess., part 1, May 20, 21, 22, and 23, 1963, 292–93. 28. Gunnar Myrdal, Challenge to Affluence (New York: Pantheon, 1963), 5. 29. Ibid., 16–17; and “Economic Stagnation Chief Problem for America, Swedish Expert Says,” Washington Post, June
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Muir, John, 167 Mullan, Phil, 240 Mumford, Lewis, 130 Muskie, Edmund, 183, 191, 323n119 Myers, Robert, 237 Myrdal, Alva, 81; Nation and Family, 81–82 Myrdal, Gunnar, 5, 81, 84, 140; An American Dilemma, 81; Population: A Problem for Democracy, 81 National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), 181 National
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words
racial segregation, which resembled the dynamic of colonization and created a captive economy within a nation. In An American Dilemma, for example, the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal demonstrated the self-reinforcing trends that had kept segregated Black areas entrenched in poverty, a phenomenon he labeled a “backwash effect”: a growing, capital-rich
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1974. Instead, its two winners were angry—not because they had to share the prize, but over whom they had to share the prize with. Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich A. Hayek harbored no personal animosity for each other; Hayek had in fact translated Myrdal’s first book into German. But their worldviews
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, who died in 1963, was active in the anticolonial struggle, joining United Nations committees and coordinating declarations of peace and disarmament alongside his old friend Gunnar Myrdal and Myrdal’s wife, Alva, herself a future Nobel laureate. At a 1949 peace conference in Paris, Du Bois lamented that his “own native land built
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privileges in world trade so that former colonies could develop their economies. But formal “freedom” meant nothing if transnational corporations had power over resources. As Gunnar Myrdal emphasized in his Nobel speech and italicized in the written version, “the blunt truth is that without rather radical changes in the consumption patterns in
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Agreement, allowing developing economies the same national powers that Western nations had until the “trade gap” was gone. This was exactly the plan proposed by Gunnar Myrdal during his Nobel speech. The other option, coincidentally, was Hayek’s. To Hayek, all state action, especially toward “international cooperation,” was indistinguishable from serfdom. He
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, Justice Warren and the Court made their historic, unanimous decision based on changed circumstances and new realities. Brown breathed life back into the Constitution. Citing Gunnar Myrdal’s research that discrimination and not biological race differences had created racially unequal outcomes, as well as the psychologist Kenneth Clark’s experiment documenting Black
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were the legal realists, who saw abuses of power in markets and in governance, as well as economists like John Maynard Keynes, Joan Robinson, and Gunnar Myrdal, who saw economics as a tool of statecraft, which at its best could make society a little fairer and even try to prevent further violence
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J. Samuels to Matthew Nimetz, dated September 27, 1968. 41. Mallaby, Man Who Knew, 125. CHAPTER 2: EMPIRE’S NEW CLOTHES 1. William J. Barber, Gunnar Myrdal: An Intellectual Biography (Basingstoke, Eng.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). 2. Leonard Silk, “Nobel Award in Economics: Should Prize Be Abolished?” New York Times, March 31, 1977
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, Charles, 77 Mott, Stuart, 77 Mozambique, 39 MSNBC, 141 Murray, Charles, 89, 362 The Bell Curve, 216 Musk, Elon, 326–29, 331 Myrdal, Alva, 40 Myrdal, Gunnar, 31–33, 38, 40, 59, 60, 69, 144, 235 An American Dilemma, 12–13, 32 Monetary Equilibrium, 32 Nabisco, 271 Nader, Ralph, 76–77, 86
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
by Rupert Darwall · 2 Oct 2017 · 451pp · 115,720 words
edition became something of a collector’s item. This helped remove a potential obstacle to the Myrdals’ stellar postwar reputation, especially in the United States. “Gunnar Myrdal taught me more about economics than anyone else in his generation,” J. K. Galbraith wrote in 2005. “He is more relevant now than ever.”10
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UN program on the environment. At the conference itself, the Aspen Institute hosted a Distinguished Lecture Series financed by the International Population Institute. Speakers included Gunnar Myrdal, Barbara Ward, and the Club of Rome’s Aurelio Peccei, who had commissioned The Limits to Growth, which was published two months before the conference
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, Sweden, Norway, and Finland (East Lansing, 2005), p. 104. 8Stellan Andersson, “On the Value of Personal Archives: Some Examples from the Archives of Alva and Gunnar Myrdal—with a Main Focus on Gunnar,” http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/1999-1/anderssonstellan-15/XML/ (accessed March 3, 2015). 9Gunnar Broberg and Mattias
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-Hansen, Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland (East Lansing, 2005), p. 97. 10Örjan Appelqvist, The Political Economy of Gunnar Myrdal: Transcending Dilemmas Post-2008 (London and New York, 2013), p. 1. 11Gunnar Myrdal, “Prize Lecture: The Equality Issue in World Development,” March 17, 1975, http
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Morgan, John Pierpont Mossman, Walter Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Muir, John Müller, Werner Mulroney, Brian Myrdal, Alva Crisis in the Population Question Nobel Peace Prize recipient Myrdal, Gunnar Crisis in the Population Question Næss, Arne Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Sciences (NAS) “Fossil Fuel Scenario: The Probability
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
by Christopher Lasch · 16 Sep 1991 · 669pp · 226,737 words
of the Expert 424 Experts and Orators: Thurman Arnold's "Anthropological" Satire 429 The "Machiavelli" of the Managerial Revolution 435 From Satire to Social Pathology: Gunnar Myrdal on the "American Dilemma " 439 The Discovery of the Authoritarian Personality 445 Politics as Therapy 450 The Liberal Critique of Populism 455 Populism as Working
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, of genial contempt, sophisticated raillery, and hard-boiled humanitarianism—gave him away as a charter member of the civilized minority. From Satire to Social Pathology: Gunnar Myrdal on the "American Dilemma" Poor Arnold! If the public could not take him seriously as a populist and trustbuster, the new class could not take
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be discussed in a forbidding, inaccessible style designed to repel outsiders as well as to establish the investigators' status as impartial experts unmoved by "oratory." Gunnar Myrdal's massive study of the race problem—an explosive issue if there ever was one—became a classic example of the new genre. Published in
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and the Southern community in which I grew up, precisely because I had been given a traditional education and was therefore literate enough to read Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma, an epoch-making book in -444- my life." It would be hard to prove that An American Dilemma had any comparable
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States did not conform to expectations about the civilizing effects of modernization, the commission searched for conditions peculiar to American society and found them (as Gunnar Myrdal had found them) in the nation's history of racial conflict, in the vigilante tradition, and in the misguided notions of individualism and popular sovereignty
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the Problem of Monopoly (1966), which describes Arnold's antitrust campaign and some of the reasons for its failure. The extensive body of commentary on Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma (1944), attests to the book's status both as a sociological classic and as a reference point in the civil rights movement
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. David Southern, Gunnar Myrdal and Black‐ White Relations (1987), provides a useful introduction to this commentary. Among the early reviews that helped to establish Myrdal's study as definitive
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of culture, 348 ; on Emerson, 547 ; on idea of progress, 41 ; on nostalgia, 113 Murray, Charles: on new class, 514 -15 Mussolini, Benito, 300, 303 Myrdal, Gunnar, 471, 559 -60; on race relations, 440 -45; on Southern backwardness, 442 -44 mythology, 242, 313 ; in Niebuhr, 370 -73; in Sorel, 371 ; in Thurman
Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
by Vito Tanzi · 28 Dec 2017
more than a few years old. Many economists today feel that way, and some read only the latest articles in good economic journals. However, as Gunnar Myrdal wrote in a brilliant essay first published in 1929, “we cannot pretend to understand completely, or even to define logically, the economic-political speculation of
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a look of rigor and precision that it had not had in the past. This new approach would ignore a warning issued in 1953 by Gunnar Myrdal that, for economics, “belief in the existence of a body of scientific 52 Termites of the State knowledge acquired independently of all valuations is … naïve
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the calls and perhaps also about the ability of the firefighters or the doctors to perform satisfactorily the functions they were called for. However, as Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish Nobel Prize winner in economics, had pointed out in a brilliant article, originally published in Swedish, as early as 1929, “all normative economic
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cannot simply continue to laissez-faire. There seem to be largely two alternatives, and the choice between the two may reflect the political attitudes that Gunnar Myrdal wrote about ninety years ago. Or it may reflect the practical question of which alternative is politically and administratively easier to adopt. It should be
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Association, (London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.). Myners, Paul, 2008, “Reform of Banking Must Begin in the Boardroom,” The Financial Times (April 25), p. 11. Bibliography 415 Myrdal, Gunnar, 1954, The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster). 1954, “The Theory of Public Finance,” chapter 7 in
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on role of government, 110, 162, 168, 187, 189 in School of Public Choice, 5, 6 Mussolini, Benito, 5, 27, 248, 252, 266–67, 279 Myrdal, Gunnar, 10, 20–21, 51–52, 64, 111, 118 “Nanny states,” 209–10 Napoleon, 267–68 “National champions,” 74, 245–46 National Rifle Association, 275 Natural
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
by Thomas Sowell · 31 Aug 2015 · 877pp · 182,093 words
water,” genetic determinists supported eugenics— a term coined by Francis Galton, who advocated “the gradual extinction of an inferior race.”62 As late as 1944, Gunnar Myrdal, in his landmark study, An American Dilemma, reported hearing “everywhere in contemporary white America” a belief in a “biological ceiling,” indicating that “the mind of
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. Cohen, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861–1914, second edition (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2006), p. 28. 38. See, for example, Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations (New York: Pantheon, 1968), Vol. III, p. 1642; Myron Weiner and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, India’s
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, East Central Europe between the Two World Wars (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992), p. 293; Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania, passim. 45. Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama, Vol. I, p. 348; Donald L. Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict, p. 133; Donald L. Horowitz, The Deadly Ethnic Riot (Berkeley: University of
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, 414, 419–420. 76. Carl K. Eicher, “Facing Up to Africa’s Food Crisis,” Foreign Affairs, Fall 1982, p. 166. 77. Ibid., p. 170. 78. Gunnar Myrdal, Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations, abridged edition (New York: Pantheon, 1972), p. 296. The great British economist Alfred Marshall observed in
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, No. 5 (June 1999), p. 1589. 62. Mark H. Haller, Eugenics: Hereditarian Attitudes in American Thought (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1963), p. 11. 63. Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944), p. 99. 64. See, for example, Edward Alsworth Ross, The Old
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York: Crown Forum, 2012), by Charles Murray. 2. The principle, but not the phrase, came from William Graham Sumner’s 1906 book Folkways. Decades later, Gunnar Myrdal paraphrased Sumner’s “legislation cannot make mores” as “stateways cannot change folkways.” William Graham Sumner, Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners
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, 1906), p. 77; Shirley Moody-Turner, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013), pp. 18, 169 (note 1); Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944), p. 1049. 3. Sarah Gordon, Hitler, Germans and the “Jewish Question
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Monica: Rand, 1978), p. 10. 18. John Dittmer, Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900–1920 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977), p. 148. 19. Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (New York: Pantheon Books, 1975), Volume II, p. 950. 20. John Dittmer, Black Georgia in the
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prerequisites: vi, 394–395 different prerequisites in different endeavors: 396 retrogressions: vi, 395–396 Murder (see Crime, homicide rates) Murray, Charles, 135, 184, 207n, 337 Myrdal, Gunnar, 204, 490–491 (endnote 2) Names, 41n, 250, 339–341 Nations and Empires, 227–233, 234, 235, 236–245, 247 Natural Resources, 8–9, 19
Equality
by Darrin M. McMahon · 14 Nov 2023 · 534pp · 166,876 words
optimistically, dissident economists working at the United Nations were in the process of developing more critical perspectives.58 The two most influential were the Swede Gunnar Myrdal and the Argentine Raúl Prebisch, who served, respectively, as the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and that of Latin America
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, The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022). 60. Gunnar Myrdal, Development and Under-Development: A Note on the Mechanism of National and International Economic Inequality (Cairo: National Bank of Egypt, 1956), 47; Myrdal, An International
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a ‘Welfare World,’” Global Intellectual History (April 2022), https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2022.2062415; Isaac Nakhimovsky, “An International Dilemma: The Postwar Utopianism of Gunnar Myrdal’s Beyond the Welfare State,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 8, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 185–194. 61. Mater et
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‘Welfare State’” (Neo-Colonialism, xiii). 78. Myrdal, Rich Lands and Poor: The Road to World Prosperity (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957), 148; Jamie Martin, “Gunnar Myrdal and the Failed Promises of the Postwar International Economic Settlement,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 8, no. 1 (Spring 2017
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson · 5 Feb 2019 · 280pp · 83,299 words
to have the second or third baby. And indeed, some governments have tried. The results are mixed at best. The Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician Gunnar Myrdal was still a student at Stockholm University in the early 1920s, but already conspicuously brilliant and brash. A professor, so the story goes, once warned
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a Muslim Majority by 2015?” Channel 4, 14 June 2013. http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck /factcheck-will-britain-have-a-muslim-majority-by-2050 119 “Gunnar Myrdal, Analyst of Race Crisis, Dies,” New York Times, 18 May 1987. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/18/obituaries
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/gunnar-myrdal-analyst-of-race-crisis-dies.html?pagewanted=all 120 Mary Johnson, “Alva and Gunnar Myrdal: The Great Happiness of ‘Living to Be Very Old and Together,’” People, 11 August 1980. http://www.people.com
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