Posted on Wednesday 2nd November 2011
The 2011 Gunnar Myrdal Prize is awarded to "The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan and the United States " by Sven Steinmo , (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
"This impressive monograph on the comparative history of Japan, Sweden and the United States draws on insights from evolutionary approaches to make up for important shortcomings in the existing literature on political economy, globalization and historical institutionalism. With this breathtaking synthesis of the complex challenges of a fast changing globalizing world, Sven Steinmo helps us to challenge the conventional convergence view to explore how those three different capitalist democracies have evolved along different trajectories that allow them to respond differently to globalization." Jean-Christophe Graz, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, EAEPE Prize Committee Coordinator
The Gunnar Myrdal Prize is awarded annually for the best monograph on a theme broadly in accord with the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) theoretical perspectives. EAEPE originated in 1988 and its main purpose is to promote evolutionary, dynamic and realistic approaches to economic theory and policy. EAEPE is now the foremost European association for heterodox economists and is the second-largest association for economists in Europe.