Business, College of
Date of this Version
December 1991
Abstract
Walter A. Jackson's Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience is more than a biographical sketch of a unique political economist. It is a fine piece of intellectual history that institutionalists, in particular, will appreciate. Jackson gracefully examines the development of Myrdal's thought as a political economist and its influence on his study of race relations, paying mindful attention to the historical context and personal influences shaping Myrdal's work. As a result of Jackson's research, we understand more fully not only the influence of Myrdal's approach as a political economist on his study of race relations, but the way Myrdal impacted the American agenda in the important area of race relations.
Comments
Published in Journal of Economic Issues 25:4 (December 1991), pp. 1184–1186. Copyright © 1991 Association for Evolutionary Economics. Used by permission.