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Gunnar Myrdal

1898–1987 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Gunnar Myrdal and America's conscience : social engineering and racial liberalism, 1938-1987

Jackson, Walter A. · 1990 · University of North Carolina Press

Walter A. Jackson traces the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and the making of 'An American Dilemma', covering social engineering and racial liberalism from 1938 to 1987. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1990, xxi and 447 pages with portraits. A note records scattered references to Howard Odum, William Terry Couch and others at the university, which is where the Chapel Hill connection lies.

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