Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987) served as Swedish minister of trade and commerce, a Rockefeller Fellow, and wrote An American Dilemma at the invitation of the Carnegie Corporation. He returned to his homeland where he was, until his death, professor at the Institute of International Economic Relations at Stockholm University.

Richard Swedberg is associate professor of sociology at the University of Stockholm, and has been a scholar in residence at Harvard University. He is the author of Sociology as Disenchantment and Economic Sociology: Past and Present.