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...talked a little about other things at Tachai too, naturally. But later on I discovered Jan Myrdal's two books, Report From a Chinese Village and China: The Revolution Continued, and since the people in the books reminded me of the country people we met, I think I'll just recommend them as strongly as I can and go back to the educated youth. We met a lot more of them, anyway. They were our counterparts, after all, and besides I think maybe we asked to meet university students once too often and our hosts might have decided to arrange...
Longtime Gladiator. There, for the most part, the similarities end. A longtime gladiator in the public arena, Myrdal served in the Swedish Parliament in the 1930s and was an impor tant architect of the Swedish Labor Party's welfare state. He was his country's Commerce Minister from 1945 to 1947 and head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe for ten years after that. He is a considerably more familiar figure than his fellow laureate, largely because of two major works published nearly a quarter-century apart. While a professor at the Uni versity of Stockholm...
...India), he published what he called his "labor of love." Asian Drama: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Nations pointed up, in 2,500 pages, the economic, political and social factors that impede progress in the world's most populous area. An apostle of thoroughgoing Swedish-style planning, Myrdal is a socialist who became in the late 1960s-though professing a sincere affection...
...Japan. A student of business cycles and one of the few economists to foresee the 1929 crash, he was cited by the academy for his work on the relative efficiency of different types of economic systems. The system that he has criticized most is the one advocated by Myrdal. In his 1944 international bestseller, The Road to Serfdom, Von Hayek warned that centralized planning, however idealistic, inexorably leads to the loss of freedom...
...pluralistic world, there is room fof such disparate thinkers as Myrdal and Von Hayek and for the opposite courses to human fulfillment that they espouse. By honoring these two economists simultaneously, the Swedish Academy has cast a quiet vote for the world of diversity...