In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a "free" economy. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
