predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place nationality party primeminister birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name alma_mater
herman eriksson gustaf andersson gunnar myrdal sven wedén 3 august 1979 klippan , skåne county Åre , jämtland county sweden people 's party per albin hansson 23 april 1899 minister member of the swedish parliament for stockholm municipality for trade leader of the people 's party 1944 1944 1938 bertil ohlin.jpg bertil ohlin
 1945 1967 1970 bertil ohlin b.a. -lrb- 1923 -rrb- ph.d. stockholm university -lrb- 1924 -rrb- lund university -lrb- 1917 -rrb- m.a. harvard university
bertil ohlin

bertil gotthard ohlin -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 23 april 1899 -- 3 august 1979 -rrb- 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 for trade from 1944 to 1945 in the swedish coalition government during world war ii .
ohlin 's name lives on in one of the standard mathematical model 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 '' .
