Gunnar Myrdal
1898 – 1987 · Sweden · Economics, Political Economy
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1974
Cumulative causation and the economics of racial inequality in America.
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- Amartya Sen
1933 · Economics, Philosophy
Asian Drama's institutional poverty analysis frames Sen's welfare economics.
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