Essential Gunnar Myrdal

A seminal collection of the most significant essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Nobel Prize-winner Gunnar Myrdal was one of the century's leading social scientists, best known in America for the classic An American Dilemma, his study of America's racial problems. That book was chosen as one of the Modern Library's top one hundred nonfiction books of the century, and has probably influenced American thought as much as any since de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. The Essential Myrdal covers the full range of Myrdal's other writing, much of which has never been published in book form. It includes his early essays on economics, his thoughts on the population question, his discussions of value in the social sciences, and excerpts from Asian Drama, his monumental study of the development of Asia. Edited by two leading Swedish scholars, the book also includes an introduction by Sissela Bok, Myrdal's daughter and the acclaimed author of Lying and Secrets.

Author Biography: Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. His books include An American Dilemma, Asian Drama, and Challenge to Affluence. Sissela Bok is Gunnar Myrdal's daughter and the author of Lying, Mayhem, Secrets, and numerous other books on politics and philosophy. Örjan Appelqvist is writing a thesis on Myrdal in the Department of Economic History at the University of Stockholm. Stellan Andersson is a historian and archivist at the Labor Movement Archives and Library in Stockholm. Richard Litell lived and worked in Sweden for twenty-two years.