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Bertil Ohlin
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Swedish economist and politician (1899-1979)
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Bertil Ohlin (1899–1979) was a Swedish economist, politician, and university teacher. He received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Ohlin held positions as a professor, chairperson, and party leader. His academic career included employment at the University of Copenhagen and the Stockholm School of Economics, where he worked in Stockholm. 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.
Ohlin was educated at Lund University, Harvard University, the Stockholm School of Economics, and Stockholm University. He studied under Gustav Cassel and Eli Heckscher, earning a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy. He spoke Swedish and English. His notable works include *Ett konjunkturuppsvings förutsättningar och möjligheter*, *Svensk kraftanspänning*, *La politique du commerce extérieur*, *Den svenska glasindustriens utveckling med särskild hänsyn till dess ställning aren närmast före världskriget*, and *The reparations problem*. He had a child named Anne Wibble.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1899
- Died
- 1979
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Ett konjunkturuppsvings förutsättningar och möjligheter
- Svensk kraftanspänning
- La politique du commerce extérieur
- Den svenska glasindustriens utveckling med särskild hänsyn till dess ställning aren närmast före världskriget ...
- The reparations problem
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes
· 2023 · cited 4,623x
- Quantitative estimation of proteins by electrophoresis in agarose gel containing antibodies
· 1966 · cited 3,449x
- Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study
· 2015 · cited 2,597x
- Effects of candesartan in patients with chronic heart failure and preserved left-ventricular ejection fraction: the CHARM-Preserved Trial
· 2003 · cited 2,522x
- Third Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction
· 2012 · cited 2,417x
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Quotes
- “To me it is a riddle that , who for most of his life was a fanatical representative of extreme opinions in the social debate, could present a completely different personality in the scholarly context. During the period when I knew him he was the diffident seeker after scientific truth.”
- “No authors propounded the ideas of economic liberalism in Sweden during the 1920s as vigorously as did Cassel and Heckscher, and in addition they certainly helped in no mean degree to give actual policy a liberal stamp during that decade.”
- “Nutrition seems to mock the achievements of economic development,”
- “I started [in 1921] to write on the foundations of an approach to international trade theory that was to some extent new and for which I received the inspiration during a stroll on [the popular promenade] Unter den Linden in Berlin in 1920.”
- “The economic history of the last half century offers two cases of serious international depressions in countries with an essential orientation towards a market economy: In the first half of the 1930ies and in the middle of the 1970ies. With some simplification one can say that in the former case recovery started after a few years without the aid of much conscious expansionist policy.”
- “The productive factors enter into the production of different commodities in very different proportions.”
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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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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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