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Eli F. Heckscher, 1879-1952.

Swedish economist Eli Filip Heckscher was a student of David Davidson at Uppsala and subsequently a docent under Gustav Cassel at Stockholm. Eli Heckscher nonetheless abandoned his mentors to blaze his own path.  In 1909,  Heckscher became the first professor of economics at the newly-founded Stockholm School of Economics (Stockholms Handelshögskolan).  Heckscher abdicated his economics chair in 1929 to Bertil Ohlin, in return for a new, separate chair in economic history for himself.

Incomparably prolific, Eli Heckscher's bibliography boasts of over a thousand publications   His most famous contribution to economics, his 1919 article which unveiled the "Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson" model of international trade to the world, was a single brilliant shot. Other major contributions include his magnificent (but often disputed) tomes on the economic history such as The Continental System (1918) and Mercantilism (1931).

 

  

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Major works of Eli F. Heckscher

  • "Ekonomisk historia: nagra antydningar", 1904, Historisk Tidskrift, p.167
  • Till bebysning af järnvägarnas betydelse för Sveriges ekonomiska utveckling, 1907 [bk]
  • Industrialismen, 1907 [bk]
  • Teollisuus ja työväki, 1908 [bk]
  • Produktplakatet och dess förutsättningar, bidrag till merkantilsystemets historia i Sverige 1908 [bk]
  • Världskrigets ekonomi: en studie af nutidens näringslif under krigets inverkan, 1915 [hath]
  • Svenska productionsproblem, 1918 [hath]
  • Kontinentalsystemet: den stora handelsspärrningen för hundra år sedan, 1918 [bk] [English 1923 translation, The Continental System: An economic interpretation, bk, av, Lib]
  • "Utrikeshandelns verkan på inkomstfördelningen, några teoretiska grundlinjer", 1919,  Ekonomisk Tidskrift. p.1-32 [English 1949 trans. "The Effect of Foreign Trade on the Distribution of Income" in Ellis and Metzler, eds, Readings in International Trade]
  • "Historia och nationalekonomi", 1920, Historisk Tidskrift,
  • Gammal och ny ekonomisk liberalism, 1921 [hath]
  • Ekonomi och historia, 1922 [hath]
  • Tullfrågan, 1924
  • "A Plea for a Theory in Economic History", 1929, EJ.
  • "Monetary History from 1914 to 1925", 1930, in Bergenland and Heckscher, editors, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland in the World War.
  • Merkantilisment: ett led i den ekonomiska politikens historia, 1931  [English 1935 trans., Mercantilism, 2 vols, av1, av2]
  • "Aspects of Economic History", 1933, in Economic Essays in Honour of Gustav Cassel
  • Sveriges ekonomiska historia från Gustav Vasa, 1936 [1949 2nd ed]
  • "Quantitative Measurements in Economic History", 1939, QJE
  • An Economic History of Sweden, 1954.
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Resources on Eli Heckscher

  • Heckscher page at Britannica.com
  • Heckscher entry at New World Encyclopedia
  • Janusansiktet Eli Heckscher, ed. R.Henriksson and M. Lundahl, 2003 [pdf]
  • Eli Heckscher, International Trade, and Economic History by Findlay et al, [prev][review  by Nick Crafts at eh.net]
  • "Eli Heckscher and Mercantilism: An introduction" by Lars Magnusson [pdf]
  • "Eli Heckscher and the Holy Trinity" by R.W. Jones [pdf]
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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