# Gunnar Myrdal

> A Swedish economist whose 1944 dissection of American racial caste became evidence in the Supreme Court case that ended legal school segregation - and whose wife won a separate Nobel Prize three decades after his.

*Swedish economist (1898-1987)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Sweden
- **Born:** 1898-12-06
- **Died:** 1987-05-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Gunnar Myrdal was born in Sweden on 6 December 1898 and built a career studying how economics, institutions, and social forces knot together. In 1974 he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for work on money theory and economic fluctuations. A decade earlier, he had published An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, a 1944 study of race relations that the Supreme Court cited in Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 ruling that dismantled legal segregation in schools. Back home, his ideas shaped Sweden's Folkhemmet - the "people's home" welfare state. When his wife Alva won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982, they became the first couple to win Nobels independently of one another. He died 17 May 1987.

## Fame
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## Topics
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