Bertil Ohlin

"It seems beyond doubt that the tariff policy pursued during the last half century has not raised the standard of living of the labouring classes. It is doubtful if agricultural duties increase the rel…"

"The economic history of the last half century offers two cases of serious international depressions in countries with an essential orientation towards a market economy: In the first half of the 1930ie…"

"The origin of this research was an attempt to extend Cassel’s system of equations of price determination in one market to that of several trading countries. Although the point of departure is totally …"

"I am presently at work on a dissertation dealing with the theory of international trade and foreign exchange rates. In dealing with this, studies of the intervention of recent years in the area of tra…"

"Curiously enough, John Stuart Mill, although he must have been familiar with Longfield's writings, seems never to have touched upon this line of reasoning."

"To me it is a riddle that, who for most of his life was a fanatical representative of extreme opinions in the social debate, could present a completely different personality in the scholarly context. …"

"International trade theory has, in my opinion, given far too much attention to the effects of certain variations, for example, in duties, on the national incomes, and too little to the effects on indi…"

"I started to write on the foundations of an approach to international trade theory that was to some extent new and for which I received the inspiration during a stroll on Unter den Linden in Berlin in…"