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Gunnar Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal
Swedish Economist
Born: Dec 6, 1898
Died: May 17, 1987
Great Important Matter Old People Problem
Related authors: Adam Smith Alan Greenspan E. F. Schumacher John Kenneth Galbraith John Maynard Keynes Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Thomas Sowell
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others. Gunnar Myrdal
Liberty Society Others Suppression May Mean
America is the one rich country with the biggest slums, the least democratic and least developed health system, and the most niggardly attitude against its old people. Gunnar Myrdal
Attitude Health People Old Country Rich System Slums Developed Most Democratic Least America Biggest Against Old People
I am often considered almost not a part of the profession of Establishment economists. I am even referred to as a sociologist. And by that, economists usually do not mean anything flattering. Gunnar Myrdal
Considered Part Almost Economists Am Referred Often Establishment Anything Flattering Mean Profession Even
Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic. Gunnar Myrdal
Culture Other Relations Members Civilization Rational Rationalism Tend Mysticism Between Pragmatic His Western Western Civilization Optimistic Close American American Culture Nations Being Romanticism Ordinary Even Compared
The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly 'hard boiled' because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic. Gunnar Myrdal
Problem Political Problems Believe Other Those Colleagues Moral Moral Issue Unrealistic Struggling Fact Simply Idealism Like Particularly Because Overlook Issue Human Human Beings Realism Hard Who Beings Fundamentally
To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness. Gunnar Myrdal
Alone Great Problem Negative White Difficult Settle Embarrassing Moral Great Majority Something Majority Equally Makes Leave American Connotations
In my family, we don't die till we're 100 years old. Gunnar Myrdal
Family Old Till Years Die

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