Gunnar Myrdal, architecte de l’État-providence

2019 ◽  
Vol N° 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Gilles Dostaler
Keyword(s):  
Gunnar Myrdal

Max Weber, Gunnar Myrdal et le statut de la normativité

2000 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rédouane Taouil
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Gunnar Myrdal

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 176-184
Author(s):  
Romain D. Huret
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Culture Of Poverty ◽  
American Dilemma ◽  
Gunnar Myrdal

In 1963, Swedish economist and public intellectual Gunnar Myrdal published his book Challenge to Affluence. His landmark 1944 book, An American Dilemma, had already pointed out the gap between apparent abundance and the bitter reality of life for millions of African Americans. Almost twenty years later, his views contradicted the dominant trend by refusing to focus on only the “culture of poverty.” Instead, he emphasized the rise of what he was the first to identify as an “underclass of unemployed and, gradually, unemployable persons and families” that was the seemingly inevitable result of structural and technological problems inherent in modern society....

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