The readers of Gunnar Myrdal and His Works are getting two books in one. Part I deals with the biography of our subject and his contribution to social democracy, the "Swedish model," the famous (or notorious) "third way," to amelioration of the race problem in the USA, and to development in Southeast Asia, and the world over.
Part Il illuminates Myrdal the economic theorist, his transit to institutionalism, and his enduring...