ABSTRACT
Gunnar M yrdal the distinguished Swedish economist and sociologist, describes this as bunk.1
which mass unemployment is disappearing from the horizon; there is an increasingly effective public service for aiding those individuals in danger of becoming unemployed in a lagging industry, so that even the exceptional unemploylnent risk is reduced; all citizens in case of illness have at their disposal medical facilities for only a nominal fee; they can look forward to a pension in old age that, in stable value, will amount to two-thirds of their income in their best fifteen years; decent living standards are guaranteed by the state for children, widows, invalids, and handicapped; by law it is forbidden to dismiss a woman for family reasons; women in public service before and after childbirth are given paid leave from employment and all women are compensated for various costs relating to the event; all schools are free and the students and their families also are gradually relieved from the necessity of finding support for their living costs; strenuous efforts are made to help families in modest circumstances to get a decent home to live in; and so on.'2
