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_bAPP/T
100 1 _aMyrdal, Gunnar
245 1 4 _aThe essential Gunnar Myrdal/
_cGunnar Myrdal; edited with commentary by Örjan Appelqvist and Stellan Andersson ; introduction by Susseka Bok; translated by Richard Litell, Sonia Wichmann and others
260 _aNew York:
_bNew Press:
_bDistributed by W.W. Norton,
_c2005.
300 _axxvii, 259 p. ;
_c25 cm.
440 _a"New Press essentail series"
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 0 _t"This I believe" /
_rGunnar Myrdal --
_tPreface /
_rStellan Andersson and Orjan Appelqvist --
_tIntroduction /
_rSissela Bok --
_g1.
_tGunnar is my name! --
_tFrom "A positive radical" --
_tFrom Value in social theory --
_tLiterature about Gunnar Myrdal : a selection --
_g2.
_tTheoretical economist : the Stockholm school and the economic crisis of the 1930s --
_tFrom Price formation and the change factor --
_tFrom Monetary equilibrium --
_t"Fiscal policy in the business cycle" --
_tFrom "High taxes, low interests" --
_g3.
_tOn evaluation in research --
_tFrom The political element in the development of economic theory --
_tFrom "The altered world image in political economy" --
_tFrom An American dilemma --
_tFrom Objectivity in social research --
_tFrom diary letter to Alva Myrdal --
_g4.
_tOpinion former : a new social policy and the welfare state --
_tFrom "Dilemma of social welfare policy" --
_tFrom "Population problems and policies" --
_tExcursus --
_g5.
_tInvestigator : the American dilemma --
_tFrom An American dilemma --
_tFrom Challenge to affluence --
_t"Myrdal's sacred flame" /
_rMichael S. Harper --
_tFrom An American dilemma --
_g6.
_tPolitician : harvest struggles --
_tFrom Varning for fredsoptimism (warning for post-war optimism) --
_t"Sweden actively furthering free trade" --
_tFrom "The reconstruction of world trade and Swedish trade policy" --
_tExcursus --
_g7.
_tInternational cooperation --
_t"Why are international economic organizations so inefficient?" --
_tFrom "Increasing interdependence between states but failure of international cooperation" --
_g8.
_tWorld poverty --
_tFrom "The need for reforms in underdeveloped countries" --
_g9.
_tInstitutional economist --
_tFrom Rich lands and poor --
_tFrom "The world poverty problem" --
_tFrom "Institutional economics" --
_g10.
_tA worried American --
_tFrom "The Vietnam War and the political and moral isolation of America" --
_tFrom "A worried America"
650 0 _aEconomics
650 0 _aSocial sciences
856 _uAppelqvist, Örjan
856 _uAndersson, Stellan
942 _cWB16