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Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal Books

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Economist, born on December 6, 1898, and died on May 17, 1987. A prominent Swedish economist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions to development economics and institutional economics.

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“America is free to choose whether the Negro shall remain her liability or become her opportunity.”

America Opportunities African Americans Blacks Liabilities

Book:An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

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“I would say that it is an advantage to belong to a small country. We are apt to be less provincial in scholarly undertakings. We don't have enough literature in various problems - we must always look on the whole world. No country can be so provincial as a big country. The United States is, in my opinion, the most provincial country I have lived in - an I'm afraid that England and France don't come very far behind.”

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“The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.”

Feelings Culture Women Study Records Position Personality Bases Fundamentals Drawing Parallels Uncovering

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“Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.”

Whole America Individual Education Majors Improving Individuals And Society

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“It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.”

Feels Should Law Natural Ordinary Organization Combat

Book:An American Dilemma, Volume 2: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

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“America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.”

America Leader Gone Hero Conservative Exception Gifted Statesmen

Book:Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

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“The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.”

People Wells Bigs Ability Poverty Majority Misery Noticing

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“Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.”

Divorce Explanation Foxes Correlation Finland

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“It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.”

Long Lost Term Economic Development Battle Long Term Economic Development

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“Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.”

Country Government Certain Poor Vision Worst Example Western Planning Lacking Poor Planning Rent Control

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“America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.”

America Principles Fundamentals Conservative Radical Fundamental Principles

Book:Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

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“Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.”

States Political Found Interest Groups Fields Advantage Presses Democratic Privileged Intervention Political Power Democratic Society

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“The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.”

Term Effects Balance International Tendencies Banking Short Term Payment Cushions Erratic Disequilibrium

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“All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.”

Character Order Causes Natural Violent Consistency Status Quo Decrease Natural Order

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“So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.”

Social Water Reactions Thrown Social Change Irreversible Sodium

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“In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.”

Has Beens Ideas America Political Moral Economic Intellectual Economics Circles Planning Perversion Connotation Subversion

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“In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a "free" economy.”

Country States United United States Economy Rich Degrees Economics Western Debate All Time Progressive Free Economy

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“It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.”

Age Economic Accidents Liberalism Victorian Heyday Victorian Age

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“Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.”

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“Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy”

Lost Social Virtue Morality Shy Remedy Taboo Social Taboos

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“Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.”

Has Beens Country Political Social Parent Attitude Economic Western Planning Planes Related Phenomenon Trends Parenthood Planned Parenthood Social History

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“As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.”

Common Destiny Events Prophet

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“Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.”

People Ifs Looks Country Sometimes Seems Would Be Nations Poor Mass Bigger Satisfied Gaps Desirable Better Off Surviving Poor Countries

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“People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.”

People Thinking States Purpose Social Interest Society Economic Conditions Fashion Prepared Radical Spheres Intervention

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“There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.”

People Cutting Taxes Vote Election Majority Representatives Assembly Unwilling Expenditures

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About the Author

Born: December 6, 1898
Died: May 17, 1987
Known for: Economist
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