స్వీడిష్ ఆర్థికవేత్త అయిన గున్నార్ మిర్థాల్ సాంప్రదాయ ఆర్థిక సిద్ధాంతాల గురించి గ్రంథం రచించాడు. 1945 లో గున్నార్ మిర్థాల్ వాణిజ్య కార్యదర్శిగా స్వీడిష్ కేబినేట్ లో ప్రవేశించాడు. 1947 నుంచి 1957 వరకు అతడు ఐక్యరాజ్య సమితి ఐరోపా ఆర్థిక కమీషన్ కు చైర్మెన్ గా వ్యవహరించాడు. దక్షిణాసియాలో  10 సంవత్సరాల పాటు ఆర్థిక, సాంఘిక పరిస్థితులను పరిశోధించి 1968 లో Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations  గ్రంథం రచించాడు. ఈ గ్రంథంలో మిర్థాల్ ఆసియా దేశాలలోని పేదరికాన్ని వర్ణించాడు. 1960 నుంచి 1967 మిర్థాల్ స్టాక్‌హోమ్ విశ్వవిద్యాలయంలో అంతర్జాతీయ అర్థశాస్త్రపు ఉపన్యాసకుడిగా పనిచేశాడు. 1961లో  స్టాక్‌హోమ్ విశ్వవిద్యాలయంలో Institute for International Economic Studies ప్రారంభించినాడు. అతడు అర్థశాస్త్రానికి చేసిన సేవలకు గాను 1974 సంవత్సరంలో ఫ్రెడరిక్ వాన్ హేయక్ తో కల్సి సంయుక్తంగా అర్థశాస్త్రంలో నోబెల్ బహుమతి లభించింది. మిర్థాల్ స్టాక్‌హోమ్ స్కూల్ను బాగా ప్రభావితం చేసినాడు. ప్రాథమిక దశలో అతను చేసిన ఆలోచనలను తర్వాత జాన్ మేనార్డ్ కీన్స్సిద్ధాంతీకరించినాడు. ఇతను మే 17, 1987 న మరణించాడు. అతని యొక్క మరో ప్రముఖ గ్రంథం An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. 
==బయటి లింకులు==
*http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1974/press.html
*[http://werdet.atspace.com/bin/myrdal-lecture.html Pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena]
*http://www.africa2000.com/INDX/myrdal.htm
*[http://www.geocities.com/econ_555jim/myrdal-lecture.html Gunnar Myrdal – Prize Lecture]

వర్గం:ఆర్థిక వేత్తలు
వర్గం:స్వీడిష్ ఆర్థిక వేత్తలు
వర్గం:ఆర్థిక శాస్త్రంలో నోబెల్ బహుమతి గ్రహీతలు
వర్గం:1898 జననాలు
వర్గం:1987 మరణాలు

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'''Karl Gunnar Myrdal''' (Swedish economist and politician. He was born in Gustafs, Dalarna, and died in Danderyd, close to Stockholm. He graduated from Stockholm University Law School in 1923 and received a doctorate degree in Economics in 1927. He married Alva Myrdal in 1924, and they had three children including Jan Myrdal and Sissela Bok.  He, with Friedrich Hayek, were awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize for Economics 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."<ref> [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1974/press.html The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974] 9 October, 1974</ref>

He was Social Democratic Member of Parliament from 1933 and Minister of Trade from 1945 to 1947 in Tage Erlanders government. 

Gunnar Myrdal himself is known for his 1944 study, ''U.S. Supreme Court decision in ''Brown v. Board of Education'' to outlaw racial segregation in public schools.  Myrdal was also a signatory of the 1950 UNESCO statement ''The Race Question'', which also influenced the ''Brown v. Board of Education'' decision.

== Career ==

In Gunnar Myrdal's doctoral dissertation, published in 1927, he examined the role of expectations in price formation. His analysis strongly influenced the Stockholm school. In his early research Myrdal anticipated ideas later developed by John Maynard Keynes.

He was professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1933 to 1947 and simultaneously a Social Democratic Member of Parliament.

He coauthored with Alva Myrdal the ''Crisis in the Population Question'' (, 1934). The basic premise of ''Crisis in the Population Question'' is to find what social reforms are needed to allow for individual liberty (especially for women) while also promoting child-bearing. While heralding many sweeping social reforms seen as positive for Sweden, the book also incorporated some of the zeitgeist of the 1930s, in its promotion of the idea of eugenics and compulsory sterilization programs <ref> [http://www.ochrance.cz/en/dokumenty/dokument.php?doc=400 2005 Czech report] on compulsory sterilization (see section on Sweden) </ref>, which were actually practiced in Sweden until 1975.

Gunnar Myrdal then became Minister of Trade from 1945 to 1947. For the next 10 years he was Executive Secretary of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (otherwise known as the economic liberals such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.<ref>Brittan, Samuel; [http://www.samuelbrittan.co.uk/text172_p.html “The not so noble Nobel Prize”], ''Financial Times'' 19 December 2003.</ref>

Myrdal is perhaps even more famous for his influential and landmark book ''An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy'', originally published in 1944 and commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation. The "American dilemma" is between high ideals on the one hand and poor performance on the other: in the two generations or more since the Civil War, the U.S. had not been able to put its human rights ideals into practice for the black (or Negro) tenth of its population. This comprehensive study of sociological (including economic), anthropological and legal data on black-white race relations in the U.S. was begun in 1938, after Myrdal was selected by the Carnegie Corporation to direct the study. It should be noted here that Myrdal planned on doing a similar study on the question of gender instead of race; however, he could not find the funding for this project so he never completed it. 