Myrdal, gunnar with richard sterner and arnold rose (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Pages numbered. 709-1483. Some discoloring and wear to the covers; bumped corner; pages yellowed; name inside; a solid reading copy still. No jacket. Volume 2 only. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Politics; Inventory No: 211209.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. None. The pages are clean and unmarked with yellowing to the pages and foxing to the page edges. The front flyleaf has a name and price in pencil. The gutter ahs some wear and looseness. The cover has some wear, bumping, and fraying to the corners, edges of the cover and edge of the spine.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (stated). lv, 705 pp; 5 figs.; xii, 707-1,483 pp; tables. Original cloth. Signature of former owner on each pastedown, else Very Good, without dust jacket. Gunnar Myrdal: Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1974 (shared with F.A. von 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.' 'In 1938, the Carnegie Corporation of New York commissioned [Myrdal] to direct a study of the American Negro problem. The material which he collected and interpreted was published in 1944 as An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy' (Myrdal biography on the Nobel Foundation Web site). 'In 1964, the editors of the Saturday Review asked twenty seven esteemed men and women of letters this question, 'what books published during the past four decades most significantly altered the direction of [the American] society?' Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma received more votes than any other books except John Maynard Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. . . . According to Myrdal, the American dilemma of his time referred to the co-existence of the American liberal ideals and the miserable situation of blacks. On the one hand, enshrined in the American creed is the belief that people are created equal and have human rights; on the other hand, blacks, as one tenth of the population, were treated as an inferior race and were denied numerous civil and political rights. Myrdal's encyclopedic study covers every aspect of black-white relations in the Unites States up to his time. He frankly concluded that the 'Negro problem' is a 'white man's problem.' That is, whites as a collective were responsible for the disadvantageous situation in which blacks were trapped. Myrdal's work had a great influence on the American civil rights movement. Today, after more than fifty years since the publication of Myrdal's book, it is hard for us to appreciate fully the extent of his boldness. Mrydal's work, and especially the history he documented, should not be forgotten' (Junfu Zhang, 'Black-White Relations: The American Dilemma', Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 4, February 29, 2000).…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good-. 1st edition. 1944 on the copyright page, with the code A-Y (January 1949). A Very Good book in a Good- dust jacket. 8vo., 1483 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with tan & black dust jacket, $6.00. Jacket is chipped and rubbed through at tips, edges and spine with overall tanning and an old tape repair to front. Previous owners name inside front cover, text edges dusty. Text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The foundation chose Myrdal because it thought that as a non-American, he could offer a more unbiased opinion. Myrdal's volume painstakingly detailed what he saw as obstacles to full participation in American society that American Blacks faced as of the 1940s. American political scientist, diplomat, and author, Ralph Bunchewho was the first African American to receive a Nobel Prizeserved as Gunnar Myrdal's main researcher and writer at the start of the project in the fall of 1938.…

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Later Printing. Ground-breaking & influential study of race relations in the United States and how they might be improved, by the (later) Nobel Prize-winning Swedish economist & sociologist. Myrdal was selected by the Carnegie Corporation, who initiated the study, because it was thought a non-American's perspective would be less biased. Complete set, two stout hardcovers in jackets, as pictured; stated sixth printing, still in the first year of publication. Light wear to books, minor bumping to corners, light tanning to pages; jackets show some rubbing, chipping, & edgewear, short tears. Text clean; lv, [3], 705; xii, [707] to 1483 pages; index, notes, extensive bibliography, appendices on methodology, terminology, economics, other issues. Size: Large Octavo. Set.…