Gunnar Myrdal

Karl Gunnar Myrdal (6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish Nobel laureate economist, sociologist, and politician. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." He is best known in the United States for his study of race relations, which culminated in his book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. The study was influential in the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision Brown v. Board of Education.
== Tossup Questions ==
# This economist advocated government subsidies for having children in his native country in a work he wrote with his wife, Crisis in the Population Question, leading to their name becoming a slang term for sex in his native language. He distinguished between planned and realized savings in Monetary Equilibrium and examined third-world poverty in Asian Drama. One work by this man advanced the idea of cumulative causation. He blamed the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the minimum wage law for putting hundreds of thousands of sharecroppers out of work. That work suggests that poverty creates poverty. The Supreme Court cited him in supporting the argument that separate but equal facilities were inherently unequal in Brown v. Board. For 10 points, name this Swedish economist who wrote An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.