I was unusually happy one morning in 2009 when I bounced into my economic history class. It was a historic day, and a very good one for economists who work in the public choice and institutional ...

Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to have won a Nobel prize for economics, was most famous for challenging the idea of the “tragedy of the commons”: that in the absence of government intervention, people ...

Elinor Ostrom's death on 12 June, just days before the Rio+20 conference, is an enormous loss. But her life's work offers many lessons for the deliberations, decisions and path to progress at and ...

Elinor Ostrom, a globe-trotting professor who in 2009 became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in economics, died June 12 at a hospital in Bloomington, Ind. She was 78 and had cancer. Her ...

Elinor Ostrom provides invaluable insights into economics and ownership - and the profound impact this has on our natural environment. Unfortunately, her work is not well known or widely understood.

November 14, 2019 — In December 2019, representatives of countries around the world will gather for COP 25, the 25th annual Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University political scientist who is the only woman to have been awarded a Nobel Prize in economics, died Tuesday. She was 78. Ostrom, who won a share of the ...

Elinor Ostrom carried out her most important work in the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called “Tragedy of the Commons” was exercising economic minds. The phrase, coined by the ecologist Garrett Hardin, ...

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Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, died on Tuesday, after battling cancer. She was 78. The distinguished Indiana University professor shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for ...