Gunnar Myrdal on Labour Market Regulation and Economic Development

This article proposes a re-reading of Gunnar Myrdal’s theory of the functioning of the labour market. In contrast with the conventional view of his time (what he labelled “equilibrium economics”), Myrdal upholds that a deregulated market economy is unable to spontaneously generate a social environme...

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Main Author: Guglielmo Forges Davanzati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Œconomia 2013-06-01
Series:Œconomia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/573