Ideologies / Welfare Capitalist / Gunnar Myrdal
§ The minds · 1898–1987 · Sweden · Economist
Gunnar Myrdal
The engineer of welfare
Social economics, Nobel-crowned.
Economic−10
SocialistMarket
Governance−22
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+38
TraditionalProgressive
The Swedish economist and Nobel laureate whose studies of welfare, race ('An American Dilemma') and development gave the welfare-capitalist model its intellectual rigour.
social
Progressive — race, poverty and population studied to drive reform.
economic
Designed the empirical case for the welfare state within a market economy.
governance
Social-democratic reformer working through open institutions.
Notable for
- 'An American Dilemma'
- Nobel Prize in Economics
- Architect of Swedish welfare policy
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