Bertil Ohlin
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Bertil Ohlin
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| Minister for Trade | |
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In office 1944–1945 |
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| Prime Minister | Per Albin Hansson |
| Preceded by | Herman Eriksson |
| Succeeded by | Gunnar Myrdal |
| Leader of the People's Party | |
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In office 1944–1967 |
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| Preceded by | Gustaf Andersson |
| Succeeded by | Sven Wedén |
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Member of the Swedish Parliament for |
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In office 1938–1970 |
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| President of the Nordic Council | |
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In office 1959–1959 |
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| Preceded by | Nils Hønsvald |
| Succeeded by | Gísli Jónsson |
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In office 1964–1964 |
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| Preceded by | Nils Hønsvald |
| Succeeded by | Sigurður Bjarnason |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 April 1899 Klippan, Skåne County |
| Died | 3 August 1979 (aged 80) Åre, Jämtland County |
| Nationality | Sweden |
| Political party | People's Party |
| Alma mater | B.A. Lund University (1917) MSc. (1919) M.A. Harvard University (1923) Ph.D. (1924) |
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| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions |
University of Copenhagen (1925–1930) (1930–1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gustav Cassel |
| Known for |
Heckscher–Ohlin model Heckscher–Ohlin theorem |
| Notable awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1977) |
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin (Swedish: [ˈbæʈil uˈliːn]) (23 April 1899 – 3 August 1979) was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the 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 for Trade 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".
Having received his B.A. from Lund University 1917 and his MSc. from in 1919. He obtained an M.A. from Harvard University in 1923 and his doctorate from in 1924. In 1925 he became a professor at the University of Copenhagen. In 1929 he debated with John Maynard Keynes, contradicting the latter's view on the consequences of the heavy war reparations payments imposed on Germany. (Keynes predicted a war caused by the burden of debt, Ohlin thought that Germany could afford the reparations.) The debate was important in the modern theory of unilateral international payments.
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