Eli Heckscher
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Swedish historian and economist (1879–1952)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1879-11-24 ) 24 November 1879, Stockholm
- Died
- 23 December 1952 (1952-12-23) (aged 73), Stockholm
- Influences
- David Davidson (economist) , Gustav Cassel , Alfred Marshall , Knut Wicksell
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eli
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Stockholm
- Place of death
- Stockholm
- Child
- Gunnar Heckscher
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Stockholm University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- economics
- Image
- Eli Heckscher.jpg
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- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- date of birth
- 1879-11-24
- date of death
- 1952-12-23
- Commons category
- Eli Heckscher
- place of burial
- Norra begravningsplatsen
- described by source
- Dictionary of Swedish National Biography
- student
- Bertil Ohlin
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Encyclopedic overview
Eli Filip Heckscher (24 November 1879 – 23 December 1952) was a Swedish political economist and economic historian who was a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics.
He is known for the Heckscher–Ohlin theorem, an influential model of international trade that predicts that capital-abundant countries export capital-intensive goods, while labor-abundant countries export the labor-intensive goods.
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