Elinor Ostrom
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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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- 7 Aug 1933
- Died
- 12 June 2012
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- 53
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- 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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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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