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After Asian Drama

In: The Dynamics of Poverty

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  • Mats Lundahl

    (Stockholm School of Economics)

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Asian Drama was Myrdal’s last important scientific contribution. The last twenty years of his life were spent on a retrospective of what he had already accomplished. This is dealt with in this chapter. Myrdal kept coming back to his old themes in conferences and speeches. He revisited his two major works, An American Dilemma and Asian Drama, and he stressed the importance of dealing with inequality and the moral aspects of the poverty problem. He also changed some of his former views, mainly those on foreign aid, which, he argued, had been largely inefficient and had better be concentrated on the poorest and distributed through non-governmental organizations like the Red Cross. Until the end of his life, however, Myrdal remained an optimist with respect to the future of mankind.

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  • Mats Lundahl, 2021. "After Asian Drama," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: The Dynamics of Poverty, chapter 0, pages 169-184, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-73347-6_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73347-6_9
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