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The Dynamics of Poverty

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73347-6

ISBN: 978-3-030-73346-9

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 6, 2021

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction: The Man and His Work

Lundahl, Mats

Pages: 1 –14

[The introductory chapter provides a capsule biography of Gunnar Myrdal’s life, a sketch of his personality—that of an egocentric workaholic—and an outline of the scope of the study, ranging from Myrdal’s doctoral dissertation to the end of his life. It sketches the main steps of his career and...
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Chapter 2Dynamics, Value Premises and Social Engineering

Lundahl, Mats

Pages: 15 –36

[This chapter traces the initial steps of Gunnar Myrdal’s methodological development, beginning with his search for a dynamic price theory in his doctoral dissertation, Prisbildningsproblemet och föränderligheten [The Price Formation Problem and Economic Change]. It deals with his criticism of...
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Chapter 3Social Engineering in Practice: The Population Issue

Lundahl, Mats

Pages: 37 –55

[This chapter deals with Gunnar Myrdal’s interest in population issues. It provides an account of the best-selling book he wrote together with his wife Alva, Kris i befolkningsfrågan [Crisis in the Population Question], published in 1934, considered as the starting point of the Social Democratic...
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Chapter 4An American Dilemma

Lundahl, Mats

Pages: 57 –76

[This chapter provides an account of Gunnar Myrdal’s most famous work, An American Dilemma, published in 1944. This book analyzed the race problem in the United States. In this book, Myrdal turned his early use of cumulative causation into a coherent, concerted endeavor to prove that black...
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Chapter 5The International Dimension of Poverty

Lundahl, Mats

Pages: 77 –99

[This chapter tells the story of how Gunnar Myrdal during his decade as executive secretary of the newly established United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva between 1947 and 1958 turned to the analysis of poverty in an international perspective, in three major works, An...
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Chapter 6The Culminating Effort: Asian Drama

Lundahl, Mats

Pages: 101 –133

[When Gunnar Myrdal left Geneva in 1958, he embarked on his largest study ever, which was to occupy him for a full decade: his investigation of the causes of poverty in South Asia, notably India. This chapter tells the story of Asian Drama and The Challenge of World Poverty, where the latter...
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Chapter 7The Reaction to Asian Drama I: The West

Lundahl, Mats

Pages: 135 –150

[As could be expected, Gunnar Myrdal’s analysis of the South Asian poverty problem provoked strong reactions from many quarters. This chapter deals with the reaction to Asian Drama in the West, mainly from conservative economists. Basically everybody agreed that the book was a very serious and...
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Chapter 8The Reaction to Asian Drama II: Radical and Asian Views

Lundahl, Mats

Pages: 151 –167

[This chapter deals with the criticism against Asian Drama by Marxist economists and economists from South Asia. Two Soviet economists devoted an entire book to a critique of Myrdal. It contains exactly what you would expect: emphasis on the lack of an analysis of capitalism and imperialism,...
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Chapter 9After Asian Drama

Lundahl, Mats

Pages: 169 –184

[Asian Drama was Myrdal’s last important scientific contribution. The last twenty years of his life were spent on a retrospective of what he had already accomplished. This is dealt with in this chapter. Myrdal kept coming back to his old themes in conferences and speeches. He revisited his two...

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