Gunnar Myrdal - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1974
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Gunnar Myrdal

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1974
for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena
Together with: Friedrich Hayek
Citizenship
Sweden Sweden
Languages
English, Swedish
date of birth
12/6/1898
place of birth
Skattunge Parish
date of death
5/17/1987
place of death
Danderyd
Lived
88 years
position held
  • professor
    • end time: 1967
    • start time: 1960
  • general secretary
    • end time: 1957
    • start time: 1947
  • member of the First Chamber
    • end time: 4/12/1947
    • start time: 1944
  • Minister of Trade
    • end time: 4/11/1947
    • start time: 7/31/1945
  • professor
    • end time: 1947
    • start time: 1933
  • member of the First Chamber
    • start time: 1936
    • end time: 1938
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1982
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1945
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1939
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
work location
  • Stockholm
employer
  • Stockholm School of Economics
  • Stockholm University
doctoral student
  • Rudolf Meidner
educated at
  • Stockholm University
  • Norra Real
field of work
  • sociology
  • economics
occupation
  • politician
  • economist
  • sociologist
  • university teacher
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