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Ohlin was born on 23 April 1899 in Klippan, Sweden. He took a degree in mathematics, statistics and economics at the University of Lund in 1917, a degree in economics under Heckscher at the Stockholm School of Business Administration in 1919, an AM degree under Taussig and Williams at Harvard in 1923, and a Ph.D. degree under Cassel at the University of Stockholm in 1924. Ohlin taught at the University of Copenhagen (1925–30) and, as Heckscher’s successor, at the Stockholm School of Business Administration (1930–65). He was a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1937 and at Columbia and Oxford in 1947.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
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Brems, H. (2008). Ohlin, Bertil Gotthard (1899–1979). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1304-2
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