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...Alva R. Myrdal, Bok's 80-year-old mother-in-law, shared the award with Mexican Alfonso Garcia Robles for their longtime crusades against nuclear arms...
...always been surrounded by the academic and famous. Her father is Gunnar Myrdal, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, and her mother is a diplomat who has sat in Sweden's parliament and held that country's ambassadorship to India. Her own field is moral philosophy--an area she exlored in her aaard-winning 1978 book "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life...
...nominees. Although virtually unknown outside human rights circles, he edged out such candidates as President Jimmy Carter (for his Camp David efforts), British Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe (for their successful endeavor to end the war in Rhodesia), Swedish Disarmament Activist Alva Myrdal and Pope John Paul II. Pérez Esquivel, said 1976 Peace Laureate Betty Williams of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, is "the greatest living radical pacifist leader." Noted the Nobel committee: "He is among those Argentines who have shone a light in the darkness. He champions a solution that dispenses with...
...rest of his classmates rushed into the world of corporate law, Bok traveled to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at the Institute of Political Science. Still unsure of his career plans, Bok spent the year studying. There he met a young Swedish student named Sissela Myrdal--daughter of sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. The two were married later that year...
...have caught the English disease," admits one economic ministry official. "It has been a numbing, demoralizing experience." Adds Swedish Nobel-prizewinning Economist Gunnar Myrdal: "We are at the end of a very long development. We live in a dangerous time. It is possible that everything will go to hell...