Eli Heckscher

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Eli Heckscher

Eli Filip Heckscher (born November 24, 1879 in Stockholm ; † December 23, 1952 there ) was a Swedish economic historian and political economist.

Life

Eli Filip Heckscher was born into a prominent Jewish family; his parents were Isidor Heckscher, a Danish businessman, and Rosa May. At the beginning of the 1870s the family moved from Hamburg to Stockholm because Isidor Heckscher was supposed to work in his brother's bank. In 1896, Heckscher completed his Abitur at Nora Latin Gymnasium and then began studying history at Uppsala University . Due to his broad interest, he also began to study economics. In 1904 he passed his final examination with the thesis Till belysning av järnvägarnas betydelse för Svenges ekonomiska utveckling (On the importance of the railway for the economic development of Sweden). From 1904 Heckscher was Gustav Cassel's assistant at the Stockholm School of Commerce ; five years later, Heckscher obtained his doctorate. From 1909 to 1929 he was professor of economics and economic geography at the Stockholm School of Commerce and also wrote many newspaper articles for general and specialist newspapers.

Heckscher's son Gunnar Heckscher and grandson Sten Heckscher later became well-known Swedish politicians.

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Heckscher wrote significant papers on mercantilism and other historical subjects such as the continental barrier and Swedish economic history. In 1919, Heckscher wrote in the essay The Effects of International Trade on the Distribution of Income Ideas that later became important as the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem for explaining international trade through Bertil Ohlin .

Awards

Heckscher was a member of the Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (1919), the Kungliga Samfundet för utgivande av handskrifter rörande Scandinaviens historia (1919), the Royal Science and Literature Society in Gothenburg (1925), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1932) and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences (1933). In 1940 the American Philosophical Society elected him a member. The University of Copenhagen awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1929 .

Fonts

  • Mercantilism. Authorized translation from Swedish by Gerhard Mackenroth. First volume. Publishing house by Gustav Fischer in Jena 1932.
  • International Trade and Economic History : Edited by Ronald Findlay, Rolf G.

literature

  • Ulf Olsson: Eli Heckscher . Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
  • Eli Heckscher . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 36 : Supplement: Globe – Kövess . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1924, Sp. 308 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handelshögskolans historia . Handelshögskolan i Stockholm
  2. ↑ Member History: Eli F. Heckscher. Member History: Eli F. Heckscher, accessed on September 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Heckscher, Eli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heckscher, Eli Filip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1952
Place of death Stockholm