Bertil Ohlin
1899 – 1979 · aged 80
Swedish economist and politician (1899-1979)
- Born
- 23 Apr 1899 · Parish of Klippan
- Died
- 3 Aug 1979 · Vålådalens Fjällstation
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- 23 Apr 1899BornBorn in Parish of Klippan
- 1924 – 1929RoleProfessor
- 1929 – 1965RoleProfessor
- 1934 – 1939RoleChairperson
- 1938 – 1944RoleMember of the First Chamber
- 1944 – 1945RoleMinister of Trade
- 1944 – 1967RoleParty leader
- 1945AwardFellow of the Econometric Society
- 1945 – 1970RoleMember of the Second Chamber
- 1949 – 1952RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- 1949AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Grenoble
- 1952 – 1954RoleSubstitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- 1952AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
- 1954 – 1961RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- 1959RolePresident of the Nordic Council
- 1964RolePresident of the Nordic Council
- 1965AwardCommanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star
- 1969 – 1971RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- 1977AwardPrize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
- 3 Aug 1979DiedDied in Vålådalens Fjällstation
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1899 – 1979).
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
Biography
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.
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".
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