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Bertil Ohlin

1899 - 1979

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bertil Ohlin is the 48th most popular economist (up from 54th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 105th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Economist.

Bertil Ohlin was a Swedish economist who was most famous for his work on international trade and the theory of factor price equalization.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Bertil Ohlin ranks 48 out of 414. Before him are Wassily Leontief, Leonid Hurwicz, John Hicks, Jacques Delors, Walt Whitman Rostow, and William Petty. After him are Tansu Çiller, Edmund Phelps, Ronald Coase, Gary Becker, Trygve Haavelmo, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Bertil Ohlin ranks 30. Before him are Georg von Békésy, Max Theiler, Suzanne Lenglen, Adnan Menderes, Gustav Heinemann, and Duke Ellington. After him are Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, George Cukor, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Chang Myon, Cevdet Sunay, and Alfred Schütz. Among people deceased in 1979, Bertil Ohlin ranks 29. Before him are Sonia Delaunay, Hanna Reitsch, Agostinho Neto, Sid Vicious, Feodor Lynen, and Nelson Rockefeller. After him are Werner Forssmann, Nur Muhammad Taraki, Jean Seberg, Reinhard Gehlen, Yukio Tsuda, and Wilhelm Bittrich.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bertil Ohlin ranks 100 out of 1,879. Before him are Sune Bergström (1916), Folke Bernadotte (1895), Louise of Sweden (1851), Ulf von Euler (1905), Birger Jarl (1210), and Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934). After him are Ronnie Peterson (1944), Ermanaric (400), Arvid Carlsson (1923), Stieg Larsson (1954), Axel Munthe (1857), and Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1700).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Sweden

Among economists born in Sweden, Bertil Ohlin ranks 2. Before him are Gunnar Myrdal (1898). After him are Knut Wicksell (1851), Eli Heckscher (1879), Gustav Cassel (1866), and Erik Lindahl (1891).

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