"Alva and Gunnar Myrdal are the only couple ever awarded Nobel prizes as individuals: Gunnar won the prize in Economics in 1974, and Alva won the Peace Prize in 1982. This dual biography examines their work as architects of the modern welfare state and probes the connections between the public...

Chapter 1: The Man and His Work -- Chapter 2: Dynamics, Value Premises and Social Engineering -- Chapter 3: Social Engineering in Practice: The Population Issue -- Chapter 4: An American Dilemma.-Chapter 5: The International Dimension of Poverty -- Chapter 6: The Culminating Effort: Asian Drama...