Eli Filip Heckscher (Stockholm November 24, 1879 - Stockholm December 23, 1952) was a Swedish political economist and economic historian.

Heckscher 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 1897. 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 1929, when he exchanged that chair for a research professorship in economic history, finally retiring as emeritus professor in 1945.

According to a bibliography published in 1950, Heckscher had as of the previous year published 1148 books and articles, among which may be mentioned his study of Mercantilism, translated into several languages, and a monumental Economic history of Sweden in several volumes. Heckscher is best known for a model explaining patterns in international trade that he developed with Bertil Ohlin.

Eli Heckscher's son was Gunnar Heckscher (1909-1987), political scientist and leader of the Swedish Conservative party (Högerpartiet) 1961-1965.

Reference

• Bertil Ohlin, "Heckscher, Eli Filip", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, vol. 18, pp. 376-381.