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Bertil Ohlin (1899-1979) was a Swedish economist and laureate of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, in 1977. He was professor of economics, at the Stockholm School of Economics and one of the parties to the Hecksher-Ohlin model, an economic theory on international trade. He was a leading member of the Stockholm school, group of economists.
Ohlin was party leader of the liberal Folkpartiet from 1944 to 1967, the main opposition party to the Social Democrat Governments of the era. His daughter Anne Wibble, representing the same party, served as Minister of Finance in 1991-1994.
