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Bertil Ohlin
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Swedish economist and politician (1899-1979)
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Bertil Ohlin was a Swedish economist, politician, and university teacher. He was born in 1899 and died in 1979. Ohlin received his education at Lund University, Harvard University, the Stockholm School of Economics, and Stockholm University. He held academic degrees including a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy. His doctoral advisor was Gustav Cassel, and he was a student of Eli Heckscher.
Ohlin worked at the University of Copenhagen and the Stockholm School of Economics, where he served as a professor, chairperson, and party leader. He worked in Stockholm and spoke Swedish and English. He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Ohlin is buried at Norra begravningsplatsen and had a child named Anne Wibble.
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1977
“for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements”
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- human
- Given name
- Bertil
- Family name
- Ohlin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- party leader
- Educated at
- Stockholm University
- Employer
- Stockholm School of Economics
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Gustav Cassel
- Student of
- Eli Heckscher
- Field of work
- economy
- Image
- Bertil-Ohlin-in-the-second-chambers-speaker-chair-391842586514.jpg
- Work location
- Stockholm
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- Bertil Ohlin
- date of birth
- 1899-04-23
- date of death
- 1979-08-03
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- Econometric Society
- place of burial
- Norra begravningsplatsen
- name in native language
- Bertil Ohlin
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- Ohlin i Stockholm
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- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin ( Swedish: [ˈbæ̌ʈːɪl ʊˈliːn]) (23 April 1899 – 3 August 1979) was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the People's Party, a social-liberal party which at the time was the largest party in opposition to the governing Social Democratic Party, from 1944 to 1967. He served briefly as Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1944 to 1945 in the Swedish coalition government during World War II. He was President of the Nordic Council in 1959 and 1964.
Ohlin's name lives on in one of the standard mathematical models of international free trade, the Heckscher–Ohlin model, which he developed together with Eli Heckscher. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977 together with the British economist James Meade "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements".
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