Tumultuous beginnings : the cause of poverty and its remedy -- The causes of population growth : the French prize essay -- The centerpiece of Wicksell's theory : diminishing returns -- Overpopulation, specialization and trade -- Emigration : a solution of the past -- The optimum population --...

This book examines Gunnar Myrdal’s analysis of poverty in relation to Sweden, the United States, South Asia, and the international economy. The chapters investigate Mrydal’s methodological development and his focus on the principle of circular and cummulative causation, dynamic economic...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Twelve Figures in Swedish Economics -- Chapter 2: The Inspiration for the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem -- Chapter 3: Gunnar Myrdal on Poverty and Circular, Cumulative Causation -- Chapter 4: Ingvar Svennilson on Economic Planning in War and Peace -- Chapter 5: From the...

Klappentext: "Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty, including its causes, consequences, reduction, and abolition. This edited volume traces the ideas of key writers and schools of modern economic thought across a...