Eli Heckscher

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.

Eli Heckscher
Born(1879-11-24)24 November 1879
Died23 December 1952(1952-12-23) (aged 73)
Stockholm
Academic background
InfluencesDavid Davidson (economist), Gustav Cassel, Alfred Marshall, Knut Wicksell

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.

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