Sterner, Richard, 1901-1978 (Personal Name)

The Negro's share: a study of income, consumption, housing, and public assistance, 1943: title page (Richard M.E. Sterner)

An American dilemma: the Negro problem and modern democracy, 1944: title page (Richard Sterner)

Social and economic conditions of the mentally retarded in selected countries, 1976: title page (Richard Sterner, Ph. D.)

Rehn, G. Full sysselsättning utan inflation: skrifter i urval, 1988: page 483 (Richard Sterner; 1901-1978)

Swedish Biographical Dictionary, via WWW, August 9, 2013 (Richard ME Sterner; Sterner, Richard Mauritz Edvard; born April 9, 1901 in Stockholm; died January 16, 1978 in Kungsholmen, Stockholm; scientist, politician and government official; he worked as a social statistician and was active in the dynamic social policy and social scientific environment that was developed in Stockholm in the 1920s and 1930s; he joined Gunnar Myrdal in the United States in 1938 to carry out a large-scale study, initiated and funded by the Carnegie Foundation, on the American race problem; after Germany invaded Denmark and Norway in 1940, Sterner and his wife Margaret, who had Jewish ancestry, stayed in the U.S. until 1942; on his return to Sweden in 1942, he was hired as the head of LO's Economic Policy Department; he also acted as Principal Secretary in the preparation of Labour's postwar program; he was active in the Social Democratic Party and the trade union movement in economic policy; he served as Director General of the ISA from1952 until his retirement in 1967; from the mid-1950s, his career focused mainly on health and disability issues)