biography
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Ohlin, Bertil (Gotthard)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1979)
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| biography:
| Economist and politician, born in Klippan, S Sweden. He studied in Sweden and at Harvard, and became professor at Copenhagen (1925–30) and Stockholm (1930–65). He was a member of the Swedish parliament (1938–70), and leader of the Liberal Party (1944–67). As an economist he is best known for the Heckscher–Ohlin theorem, which states that countries will export goods that are produced with their relatively abundant factors of production, and import those goods produced with their scarce factors. He shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on the dynamics of trade. |
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