Elinor Ostrom
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Elinor Ostrom was a political scientist of Indiana University. She was known for her work documenting how communities sharing common resources avoid the tragedy of the commons.
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- Born: 1933-08-07
- Died: 2012-06-12 (age 78)
History
- 1990: Elinor Ostrom publishes Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action with Cambridge University Press, providing counter-examples involving fisheries in Turkey, logging and grazing in Switzerland and Japan, as well as irrigation in the Philippines and Spain.[1]
- 2009: Elinor Ostrom is awarded the pseudo Nobel prize in economics “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”.[2]
- 2012-06-12: Died at age 78 in Bloomington, Indiana.[3]
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- ↑ Elinor Ostrom. (1990). “Governing the commons : the evolution of institutions for collective action”. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. OCLC: 21409003.
- ↑ “The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009”. nobelprize.org. Accessed 2025-01-02.
- ↑ Catherine Rampell. (2012-06-12). “Elinor Ostrom, Winner of Nobel in Economics, Dies at 78”. nytimes.com. Accessed 2025-01-02. “Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science — an achievement all the more remarkable because she was not actually an economist — died on Tuesday in Bloomington, Ind. She was 78. ¶ The cause was cancer, according to Indiana University, where she taught for many years. ¶ Professor Ostrom’s work rebutted fundamental economic beliefs. But to say she was a dark horse for the 2009 economics Nobel is an understatement. Not because she was a woman — although women in the field are still rare — but because she was trained in political science. ¶ Professor Ostrom’s prizewinning work examined how people collaborate and organize themselves to manage common resources like forests or fisheries, even when governments are not involved. The research overturned the conventional wisdom about the need for government regulation of public resources.”.
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