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...scholars picked by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences last week to share the $125,000 Nobel Prize in Economics have many things in common. Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal and Austrian-born, British-naturalized Friedrich A. von Hayek are both, at 75, still vigorously writing and teaching as visiting professors - Myrdal at the City College of New York and Von Hayek at Salzburg University. Both men achieved early recognition, as the academy noted, "for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations." And both gained their widest audiences by going beyond the economist's blackboard...
Derek Curtis Bok, 44, president of Harvard, is a scion of the Curtis publishing family and son-in-law of Swedish Sociologists Gunnar and Alva Myrdal. Bok graduated from Stanford and Harvard Law, studied in Paris as a Fulbright scholar, collected a graduate economics degree from George Washington University. A top labor-law specialist, he was named dean of Harvard Law in 1968, president of the university three years later. Democrat Bok helped organize opposition to Harrold Carswell's Supreme Court nomination, was among the academicians who went to Washington to protest the 1970 Cambodia invasion...
Dumbfoundingly, Phillips' American Negro Slavery, published in 1918, remained a dominant force in slave historiography for 30 years. Despite WPA interviews with former slaves in the 1930s and the work of a number of black historians, which went largely ignored, it was not until the period between Gunnar Myrdal's American Dilemma in 1944 and Kenneth Stampp's The Peculiar Institution (1956) that emphasis began to be placed on environment and the effects that slavery had on blacks and black culture. The stereotype of childlike, lackadaisical behavior of plantation blacks remained, though it now began...
...They Feel About What They Do" (589 pp., $10), which Pantheon published this week. "Working" is Terkel's third book of interviews on a theme. His first, "Division Street: America" (1967) was, he says, "a report from an American village, Chicago," modeled after Jan Myrdal's "Report From a Chinese Village," which Pantheon published several years earlier. His second interview book, "Hard Times" (1970), was an oral history of the Depression...
...half of Moyers' shows are conversations with people who view public life from angles not much reported on television. He has talked things over this season with, among others, Black Poet Maya Angelou, Labor Leader Harry Bridges and Historian Daniel Boorstin. Last week, Moyers interviewed Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, who has been carrying on a love-hate relation ship with the U.S. for more than 30 years...