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DIED. Bertil Ohlin, 80, Swedish politician and economist who shared, with England's James E. Meade, the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics; in northern Sweden. At 25, the handsome, precocious Ohlin was a full professor at the University of Copenhagen and an expert in international trade. A practitioner as well as a theorist, Ohlin was Sweden's Trade Minister in a wartime coalition government (1944-45). Chief of the Liberal Party from 1944 to 1967, he waged a lifelong battle to check the growth of socialization in Sweden...
Milton Friedman, an American economist at the University of Chicago, won the economics prize in 1976, and last year's award went to Bertil Ohlin of Sweden and Englishman James Meade...
...regardless of race. Crime rates in tawdry sections of Chicago have remained high over the decades, though inhabited at different times by Swedes, Poles, Germans, Italians, Syrians and blacks. Says Sociologist Lloyd Ohlin: "Slums of the big cities have always been the main source of recruitment to street crime, no matter who lived there." Says Norval Morris: "It is trite but it remains true that the main causes of crime are social and economic. The question arises whether people really care. The solutions are so obvious. It's almost as if America wished for a high crime rate...
...recent reforms have led to the closing of two large facilities, and have replaced them mostly with "cottage units," housing 10 to 20 youths with "houseparents," said Lloyd E. Ohlin, professor of Criminology and director of the study...
...study, funded since 1969 by the governor's committee on Criminal Justice and the National Institute of Justice in Washington, D.C., will run for at least two more years, Ohlin said...