‎HECKSCHER, Eli Filip.‎
‎Kontinental Systemet. Den stora handelsspärrningen för hundra ar sedan. En ekonomisk historiss studie.‎

‎Stockholm : P. A. Norstedt, 1918 In-8, (4)-IV-272 pages. Broché, couverture imprimée.‎

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‎ Eli Filip Heckscher (Stockholm, 24 November 1879 - Stockholm, 23 December 1952) was a Swedish political economist and economic historian. He was born in Stockholm into a prominent jewish family, son of the Danish-born businessman Isidor Heckscher and his spouse Rosa Meyer, and completed his secondary education there in 1917. He studied at university in Uppsala and Gothenburg, completing his PhD in Uppsala in 1907. He was professor of Political economy and Statistics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1909 until 19219, when he exchanged that chair for a research professorship in economic history, finally retiring as emeritus professor in 1945.Heckscher is best known for a model explaining patterns in international trade (Heckscher-Ohlin model) that he developed with Bertil Ohlin at the Stockholm School of Economics.Eli Heckscher's son was Gunnar Heckscher (1909-1987), political scientist and leader of what later became Moderate Party 1961-1965. His grandson, however, is Social Democratic politician Sten Heckscher. ‎