"Ohlin will live forever as one of the great innovators in the theory of international trade. He was also a pioneer in the development of modern macroeconomics. For fifty years he advanced the banner of the vintage second generation of notable Scandinavian economists — a worthy follower of the Swedish giants, , David Davidson, Gustav Cassel, ; a companion in arms of Gunnar Myrdal, , , Gustav and Johan Akerman; the teacher and mentor of , , and so many names that I dare not enumerate."
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Paul A. Samuelson, "Bertil Ohlin 1899–1979." Journal of International Economics 12 (1982): 31-49.
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Bertil Ohlin
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin (23 April 1899 – 3 August 1979) was a Swedish economist and politician, who together with developed one of the standard mathematical model of international free trade, the . 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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