Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." When his wife, Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982, they became the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first and only to win independent of each other. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974, announced October 9, 1974. Gunnar Myrdal and Friedrich von Hayek, “for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena”. Gunnar Myrdal: born 1898, Skattungbyn, Sweden. Friedrich von Hayek: born 1899, Vienna, Austria. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).