Ideologies / Nordic Liberal / Bertil Ohlin
§ The minds · 1899–1979 · Sweden · Economist & party leader
Bertil Ohlin
The social liberal economist
Markets with a humane floor.
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The Nobel-winning trade economist who led Sweden's Liberals as the humane, market-friendly alternative to social democracy — proof you could be pro-market and pro-openness at once.
social
Progressive, internationalist, anti-protectionist.
economic
Free trade and open markets tempered by a modest welfare floor.
governance
Liberal democrat; led Sweden's Liberal opposition for two decades.
Notable for
- Heckscher–Ohlin trade theory
- Nobel Prize in Economics, 1977
- Led the Swedish Liberals
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