Stolper–Samuelson theorem
Teorema de Stolper-Samuelson
- Date
- c. 1941 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Paul Samuelson y Wolfgang Stolper
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
International trade theorem, due to Wolfgang Stolper and Paul Samuelson, showing how a rise in the relative price of a good raises the real return to the production factor used most intensively in making it, and lowers the other's.
What it led to
- Pillar of Heckscher–Ohlin trade theory
- Basis for debates on trade, wages and inequality
- Standard reference in trade and tariff policy