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Gunnar Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal in January 1964
Born	Karl Gunnar Myrdal (1898-12-06)6 December 1898 Skattungbyn, Orsa Municipality, Sweden
Died	17 May 1987(1987-05-17) (aged 88) Danderyd, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Fields	Economics, Politics, Sociology
Institutions	NYU, Stockholm University
Alma mater	Stockholm University
Doctoral advisor	Gustav Cassel
Doctoral students	Rudolf Meidner
Known for	Monetary equilibrium, Ex-ante, Circular cumulative causation
Influences	Knut Wicksell John R. Commons Raúl Prebisch
Influenced	Ha-Joon Chang G. L. S. Shackle
Notable awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1974) Bronislaw Malinowski Award (1975)

Karl Gunnar Myrdal (Swedish: [ˈmyːɖɑːl]; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for their work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations. He was best known in the United States for his study of race relations, which is seen in his book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics

1969–1975	Ragnar Frisch / Jan Tinbergen (1969) • Paul Samuelson (1970) • Simon Kuznets (1971) • John Hicks / Kenneth Arrow (1972) • Wassily Leontief (1973) • Gunnar Myrdal / Friedrich Hayek (1974) • Leonid Kantorovich / Tjalling Koopmans (1975)

1976–2000	Milton Friedman (1976) • Bertil Ohlin / James Meade (1977) • Herbert Simon (1978) • Theodore Schultz / Arthur Lewis (1979) • Lawrence Klein (1980) • James Tobin (1981) • George Stigler (1982) • Gérard Debreu (1983) • Richard Stone (1984) • Franco Modigliani (1985) • James M. Buchanan (1986) • Robert Solow (1987) • Maurice Allais (1988) • Trygve Haavelmo (1989) • Harry Markowitz / Merton Miller / William Forsyth Sharpe (1990) • Ronald Coase (1991) • Gary Becker (1992) • Robert Fogel / Douglass North (1993) • John Harsanyi / John Forbes Nash / Reinhard Selten (1994) • Robert Lucas, Jr. (1995) • James Mirrlees / William Vickrey (1996) • Robert C. Merton / Myron Scholes (1997) • Amartya Sen (1998) • Robert Mundell (1999) • James Heckman / Daniel McFadden (2000)

2001–present	George Akerlof / Michael Spence / Joseph E. Stiglitz (2001) • Daniel Kahneman / Vernon L. Smith (2002) • Robert F. Engle / Clive Granger (2003) • Finn E. Kydland / Edward C. Prescott (2004) • Robert Aumann / Thomas Schelling (2005) • Edmund Phelps (2006) • Leonid Hurwicz / Eric Maskin / Roger Myerson (2007) • Paul Krugman (2008) • Elinor Ostrom / Oliver E. Williamson (2009) • Peter A. Diamond / Dale T. Mortensen / Christopher A. Pissarides (2010) • Thomas J. Sargent / Christopher A. Sims (2011) • Alvin E. Roth / Lloyd S. Shapley (2012) • Eugene Fama / Lars Peter Hansen / Robert J. Shiller (2013) • Jean Tirole (2014) • Angus Deaton (2015)

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