Eli F. Heckscher Lectures
The Heckscher Lectures are held each year to honour the memory of Eli F. Heckscher’s (1879-1952). Among other things, Heckscher was the founder of economic history in Sweden.
The lecture is arranged each year by The EHFF Institute for Economic and Business History Research and The Ratio Institute. Heckscher was active at the Stockholm School of Economics as an economist and economic – historian and he was a leading scholar in those subjects for half a century. His work was mainly focused on economic theory and methods, Swedish economic history and institutional economic analyses. He is most famous for co-developing the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem in international economics.
Below is a list of the Heckscher lecturers since 2008, when Ratio became a co-organizer.
2025 Mark Koyama, George Mason University, “Internationell forskning om institutionell förändring”
2024Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut, “The American Corporation and the Twentieth Century”
2023Hans Peter Grüner, University of Mannheim, “European integration: What went wrong and how to fix it”
2022Ray Stokes, University of Glasgow, “Business, Industrial, or Economic History? Finding Common Ground”
2021David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), “On the Persistence of the China Shock”
2019Mary O’Sullivan, Université de Genève, “The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Capitalism”
2018Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University, “A Crisis of Beliefs – Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility”
2017Barry R. Weingast, Stanford University, “Reconstructing Adam Smith’s Politics”
2016Paul Romer, NYU, Stern School of Business, “Short-Run Shocks; Long-Run Pessimism”
2015Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University, “Corporations and Democracy: Beyond Cross-Country Regressions”
2014Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University, “Lessons from Financial Crisis”
2013James Robinson, Harvard University, “Why Nations Fail”
2012Randall Morck, University of Alberta, “Recycling Corporations: A Matter of Life and Death”
2011Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University, “Institutions, Technology and Culture: the Origins of Modern Economic Growth Reconsidered”
2010Deirdre McCloskley, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World”
2009Mark Casson, University of Reading, “Entrepreneurship: Theory, Institutions and History”
2008Youssef Cassis, University of Geneva, “Entrepreneurship and Big Business – The European Experience and the American Challenge”
Often, a Ratio dialogue is recorded in connection with the annual Heckscher lecture. You can watch them here.
