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An Assessment of Gunnar Myrdal's Early Work in Economics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Gilles Dostaler
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Spanning sixty years, from 1927 to 1987, Gunnar Myrdals work is both extensive and diversified. Aside from theoretical economics, it embraces many other fields such as sociology,

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Fall 1990 , pp. 196 - 221
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