Bertil Ohlin

Bertil Ohlin
Minister of Commerce and Industry
In office
1944–1945
Prime MinisterPer Albin Hansson
Preceded byHerman Eriksson
Succeeded byGunnar Myrdal
Leader of the People's Party
In office
1944–1967
Preceded byGustaf Andersson
Succeeded bySven Wedén
Member of the Swedish Parliament
for Stockholm Municipality
In office
1938–1970
President of the Nordic Council
In office
1959–1959
Preceded byNils Hønsvald
Succeeded byGísli Jónsson
In office
1964–1964
Preceded byNils Hønsvald
Succeeded bySigurður Bjarnason
Personal details
Born
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin

(1899-04-23)23 April 1899
Klippan, Sweden
Died3 August 1979(1979-08-03) (aged 80)
Åre, Sweden
Political partyPeople's Party
Alma materLund University (BA)
Stockholm School of Economics (MSc)
Harvard University (MA)
Stockholm University (PhD)
Known forHeckscher–Ohlin model
Heckscher–Ohlin theorem
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1977)
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsUniversity of Copenhagen (1925–1930)
Stockholm School of Economics (1930–1965)
Doctoral advisorGustav Cassel

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".