Elinor Ostrom
American political economist (1933-2012)
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Political scientist who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for studying how people manage shared resources—the first woman to claim the prize. Her work on the commons challenged conventional wisdom about what requires either private ownership or government control.
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Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson; she was the first woman to win the prize.
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