The Resume

(December 6, 1898-May 17, 1987)
Born in Gustafs, Sweden
Birth name was Karl Gunnar Myrdal
Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (1933-47)
Served in the Swedish Senate (1936-38,1942-47)
Swedish Minister of Trade (1945-47)
Executive Secretary for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (1947-57)
Wrote 'Crisis in the Population Question' (1934), 'An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy' (1944), 'Beyond the Welfare State' (1958) and 'Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations' (1968)
Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1974)
Wife Alva Myrdal received the Nobel Peace Prize (1982)

Why he might be annoying:

He advocated eugenics and compulsory sterilization.
He was a chain smoker who bragged about surviving a heart attack that would have killed most people (1972)
He and conservative economist Friedrich Hayek were mutually annoyed at being named co-winners of the Nobel Prize.
He later said he should have rejected the Prize and urged that it be abolished because economics were a 'soft science.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He so impressed his professors at Stockholm University that he was named to the faculty upon graduation.
'An American Dilemma' influenced the Supreme Court decision to outlaw segregation in public schools in Brown v Board of Education (1954).
He wrote, 'No social utopia can compete with the promise of the American Constitution and the American creed which it embraces.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 12]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [December] (Ranked: 12061898)
• I Died in 1987 (Ranked: 88)
• Known By a Middle Name
• Modern Library's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century (Ranked: 22)
• Nobel Prize for Economics (Ranked: 1974)
• People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People [1974]
• Profiles 23001-23250 (Ranked: 23230)
• We Celebrated Our Golden Anniversary

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 90.91% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 61.11% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 70.59% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 23 Votes: 65.22% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 24 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 19 Votes: 73.68% Annoying