Stockholm School of Economics

Fredrik Eklund is a New York City real estate broker, a former Information technology entrepreneur in his native Sweden, a gay porn actor and a... novelist. Eklund is the brother of the author Sigge Eklund and the son of Klas Eklund, who is a senior economist at Swedish bank SEB. His paternal granddparents were Swedish actors Bengt Eklund and Fylgia Zadig. Eklund's first American experience was as a high school exchange student in Edina, MN. After returning to Sweden, Eklund studied at the Stockholm School of Economics, but never graduated. He has also worked for the financial newspaper Finanstidningen. During his student days, he was involved in the Stockholm gay club scene, and with some friends started a club named "Billy." In 1999, Eklund founded the internet company Humany, together with his father and former prime minister Carl Bildt on the board. At the age of 23, Eklund was the CEO of a company with 45 employees. With the passing of the dot-com bubble, Eklund started a music production company, Cave Entertainment.
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Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic... Sciences 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." He is best known in the United States for his study of race relations, which culminated in his book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. The study was influential in the 1954 landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision Brown v. Board of Education. Myrdal was born on 6 December 1898 in Gustafs, Sweden, to Karl Adolf Pettersson , a railroad employee, and his wife Anna Sofia Karlsson . He took the name Myrdal in 1914. There is a possibly apocryphal story about an interaction between him and Gustav Cassel, where Cassel was reported to say, "Gunnar, you should be more respectful to your elders, because it is we who will determine your promotion," and he replied, "Yes, but it is we who will write your obituaries.
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