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Elinor Ostrom

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Elinor Ostrom

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Also known as Elinor "Lin" Ostrom, E. Ostrom, E Ostrom, Ostrom E, Ostrom E., Ostrom E. L., Ostrom EL, Ostrom

American political economist (1933-2012)

AI overview

Elinor Ostrom was an American political economist who studied how communities manage shared resources like forests and fisheries without relying solely on government control or private ownership. Her research demonstrated that ordinary people can successfully cooperate to sustain these resources over time, which challenged the prevailing assumption that such cooperation was impossible and made her work influential in economics and policy.

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Born
7 Aug 1933
Died
12 June 2012
Works
53

Top works

  • Decision-related research on the organization of service delivery systems in metropolitan areas
  • Une troisième voie entre l'État et le marché
  • Police referral practices and social service agency practices in three metropolitan areas, 1977
  • Die Verfassung der Allmende
  • Die Verfassung der Allmende

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5 total works indexed

  1. Governing the Commons

    · 1990 · cited 17,274x

  2. The Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Generates Cells with Properties of Stem Cells

    · 2008 · cited 7,234x

  3. A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems

    · 2009 · cited 6,250x

  4. The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    · 2018 · cited 4,773x

  5. The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma

    · 2013 · cited 4,488x

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Quotes

  • “What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit - and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization - is an adequately specified theory of collective action whereby a group of principals can organize themselves voluntarily to retain the residuals of their own efforts.”
  • “We should continue to use simple models where they capture enough of the core underlying structure and incentives that they usefully predict outcomes. When the world we are trying to explain and improve, however, is not well described by a simple model, we must continue to improve our frameworks and theories so as to be able to understand complexity and not simply reject it.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2009

    “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons”

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Encyclopedic overview

Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) 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.

Trained in political science at UCLA, Ostrom was a faculty member at Indiana University Bloomington for 47 years. Beginning in the 1960s, Ostrom was involved in resource management policy and created a research center, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, which attracted scientists from different disciplines from around the world. Working and teaching at her center was created on the principle of a workshop, rather than a university with lectures and a strict hierarchy. Late in her career, she held an affiliation with Arizona State University.

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