GUNNAR MYRDAL, WON NOBEL PRIZE, WROTE ABOUT POOR IN AMERICA; 88

From: The Boston Globe | Date: May 18, 1987| Author: Associated Press | Copyright information

STOCKHOLM - Gunnar Myrdal, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who used his background in Sweden's welfare state to write classic works about the poor in America and in developing countries, died Sunday. He was 88.

Mr. Myrdal, author of "An American Dilemma," shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in economics. He was the widower of Alva Myrdal, a 1982 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Mr. Myrdal rose from Swedish village life to become one of his country's leading intellectuals and true...

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