After Asian Drama

Mats Lundahl ()
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Mats Lundahl: Stockholm School of Economics

Chapter Chapter 9 in The Dynamics of Poverty, 2021, pp 169-184 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73347-6_9

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