The article profiles Swedish economist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal. It states that Myrdal was born in Dalarna, Sweden in which he followed the conservative footsteps of his father. It chronicles Myrdal's education in high school where in he was influenced by his teacher about the philosophy of Enlightenment. It also mentions Myrdal's work on the penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social, and institutional phenomena, which earned him the Nobel Prize in 1974.