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Eli Heckscher

1879 - 1952

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eli Heckscher is the 179th most popular economist (up from 182nd in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 322nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Eli Heckscher ranks 179 out of 414. Before him are Harriet Martineau, Henry Sidgwick, Henry George, Jim Rogers, Oliver Hart, and Piero Sraffa. After him are János Kornai, Wilhelm Röpke, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Myron Scholes, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Eli Heckscher ranks 77. Before him are Dwight F. Davis, William Fox, René Pottier, Bernhard Schmidt, Henri Wallon, and Aleksandar Tsankov. After him are Jacques Copeau, Kosta Pećanac, Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Ernest Jones, Thomas Beecham, and Hu Hanmin. Among people deceased in 1952, Eli Heckscher ranks 64. Before him are Paul Neményi, Keisuke Okada, William Fox, Clark L. Hull, Waldemar Bonsels, and Henri Winkelman. After him are Albert Forster, Kenwa Mabuni, Princess Hilda of Nassau, Pierre Renoir, Sergei Bortkiewicz, and Vladimír Clementis.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Eli Heckscher ranks 315 out of 1,879. Before him are Siw Malmkvist (1936), Elsa Beskow (1874), Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken (1670), Gustav Trolle (1488), Bengt Strömgren (1908), and Elizabeth Hesselblad (1870). After him are Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), Arvid Lindman (1862), Daniel Solander (1733), Eva Dahlbeck (1920), Bo Widerberg (1930), and Erik Dahlbergh (1625).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Sweden

Among economists born in Sweden, Eli Heckscher ranks 4. Before him are Gunnar Myrdal (1898), Bertil Ohlin (1899), and Knut Wicksell (1851). After him are Gustav Cassel (1866), and Erik Lindahl (1891).

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