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Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal was born in 1898 in the town of Ål in Dalarna, Sweden. He studied at the University of Stockholm and later at the London School of Economics. Myrdal's work focused on economic development, inequality, and race relations. He is best known for his book "An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy" (1944), which was a groundbreaking study of race relations in the United States.