Talk:Gunnar Myrdal
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Is there anyone skilled in writing something on that word "dilemma" in terms of how it has been used after 1944??
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=myrdal+dilemma&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-pull-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt
[edit] Deleting a nonrepresentative paragraph
I am deleting the last paragraph, which I have to believe was originally included for its sexual content, or for whatever weird reason, and certainly is not a representative part of the book An American Dilemma. I don't recall it at all from my college study of the book. Its inclusion here in such a short stub can serve no useful purpose; instead it merely serves to downgrade and denigrate a very useful and constructive book. Here the last paragraph is, as deleted, typo (I suppose "published" was intended in place of "publishes") and all:
- Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal publishes a landmark study on whites' preoccupation with miscegenation, An American Dilemma. Myrdal and his researchers ask white Southerners to choose what they believe blacks most want from integration. The number one item on their list: "intermarriage and sexual intercourse with whites." This category ranks last for blacks.
The topic of intermarriage IS a very important topic. Its increase, more than anything else, helps reassure me (a white) that at least some real progress has been made since 1944. For7thGen 01:12, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1974/myrdal-bio.html/
[edit] Hayek, Stockholm school & Nobel Prize
I think someone knowledgeable in economic stuff could explain how come Myrdal, who apparently belonged to the Stockholm school and was thus, broadly speaking, Keynesian, could be awarded the economic version of the Nobel Prize along with Friedrich Hayek. This is most surprising. Was it some attempt at balancing, and giving the prize on one hand to a founder of neoliberalism thought, and to the other to a Keynesian? Or did they manage, an astounding feat, to make some work together despite their obvious ideological and economical differences? In any cases, this warrants explanations! Tazmaniacs 18:04, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- It was widely interpretted as a balancing act. But the Committee didn't say something such as “We're including Myrdal to make it politically acceptable to give the Prize to Hayek.” Before the period of Keynesian hegemony, Hayek and Myrdal had both been part of a network of business cycle researchers. But Myrdal was glad to see Hayek cast into the wilderness, and outraged that the device of the Prize should have been used to retrieve him from exile. —SlamDiego 13:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
- Is it ok and possible to mention their differing views. Specifically that Hayek never thought of Myrdal as a good economist. (I think Hayek's nobel lecture was an attack on Gunnar and his like) "No, it is certainly a rather extreme case combined with an intellectual arrogance that, even among economists, is rare. Myrdal has been in opposition on these issues even before Keynes came out. His book on monetary doctrines and values and so on dates from the late 1920s. He has his own peculiar view on this subject which I think is wrong. His book couldn't even be reproduced now. I don't think he has ever been a good economist." http://www.reason.com/news/show/33304.html Kendirangu 10:28, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] photo
There is a picture on the swedish site: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Myrdal
- Yes, but copyright law is different in Sweden. In Sweden, if the photog died before '44, or if the image was taken before '44 and the photog is untraceable, then the image is in the public domain. (Tangent: Unless the Wikipedia servers for http://sv.wikipedia.org/ are located in Sweden, I doubt that Wikipedia is on good legal ground invoking Swedish copyright law!) —SlamDiego 18:19, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
