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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eli Heckscher has received more than 93,507 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Eli Heckscher is the 182nd most popular economist (up from 183rd in 2019), the 322nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 321st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Eli Heckscher ranks 182 out of 414. Before him are Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Nicholas Kaldor, Daniel Ellsberg, Jim Rogers, and Michael Spence. After him are Frank Knight, Nikolay Danilevsky, Lujo Brentano, Robert B. Wilson, Oliver Hart, and Harold Laski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Eli Heckscher ranks 79. Before him are Jacob Gade, Alla Nazimova, Aimo Cajander, Sándor Garbai, Hu Hanmin, and Henri Wallon. After him are Kosta Pećanac, Patrick Pearse, Oskar Barnack, Johan Nygaardsvold, Aleksandër Moisiu, and Thomas Beecham. Among people deceased in 1952, Eli Heckscher ranks 66. Before him are Georgy Shpagin, Vladimír Clementis, Albert Forster, Bernard Lyot, Keisuke Okada, and Pierre Renoir. After him are Matrona Nikonova, Princess Hilda of Nassau, Johan Nygaardsvold, Michael von Faulhaber, Sergei Bortkiewicz, and Waldemar Bonsels.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Eli Heckscher ranks 322 out of 1,879. Before him are Allan Edwall (1924), Eric Lemming (1880), Reine Wisell (1941), Erik Dahlbergh (1625), Bo Widerberg (1930), and Prince Oscar Bernadotte (1859). After him are Ingeborg Magnusdotter of Sweden (1277), Anette Olzon (1971), Rolf Lassgård (1955), Martin van Meytens (1695), Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg (1629), and Viveca Lindfors (1920).

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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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