Biography of Eli Heckscher -

Eli Filip Heckscher (Stockholm November 24, 1879 -
Stockholm December 23, 1952) was a Sweden|Swedish
Political economy|political economist and Economic
history|economic historian.

Heckscher was born in Stockholm into a prominent
Jewish family, son of the Danish-born businessman
Isidor Heckscher and his spouse Rosa Meyer, and
completed his secondary education there in 1897.
He studied at university in Uppsala
University|Uppsala and Gothenburg
University|Gothenburg, completing his PhD in
Uppsala in 1907. He was professor of Political
economy and Statistics at the Stockholm School of
Economics from 1909 until 1929, when he exchanged
that chair for a research professorship in
economic history, finally retiring as emeritus
professor in 1945.

According to a bibliography published in 1950,
Heckscher had as of the previous year published
1148 books and articles, among which may be
mentioned his study of Mercantilism, translated
into several languages, and a monumental Economic
history of Sweden in several volumes. Heckscher is
best known for a model explaining patterns in
international trade that he developed with Bertil
Ohlin.

Eli Heckscher's son was Gunnar Heckscher
(1909-1987), political scientist and leader of the
Swedish Conservative party (HÃ¶gerpartiet)
1961-1965.

==Reference==
*Bertil Ohlin, "Heckscher, Eli Filip", Svenskt
biografiskt lexikon, vol. 18, pp. 376-381.

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