Gunnar Myrdal Quotes

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• 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 without…
• Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
• It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
• Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
• America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
• Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press…
• 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 balance…
• All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.
• So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.
• In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of…
• 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…
• It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.
• Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.
• Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy
• Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on…
• As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.
• Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and…
• People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared…
• There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and…
• The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel…

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