[p2p-research] Fwd: Ostrom wins Nobel!

[Stan Rhodes]

Made my day, for sure.  She was at the top of my list.  I noticed, while in
Vancouver, BC, that their huge library had not a single work of hers.
Something tells me that's about to change.

-- Stan

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: Richard Adler <RichardAdler at oort-cloud.org>
> Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM
> Subject: Ostrom wins Nobel!
> To: Paul Hartzog <paulbhartzog at gmail.com>, Samuel Rose <
> samuel.rose at gmail.com>
>
>
> This ought to make your day, Paul:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125534373296580027.html
>
> Two American economists, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, who
> study the way decisions are made outside the markets on which many
> other economists focus, were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics
> Monday.
>
> Ms. Ostrom, who teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., is
> the first woman to win the prize, which, before Monday, had been
> awarded to 62 men since it was launched in 1969 to celebrate the 300th
> anniversary of the Swedish central bank. The judges cited "her
> analysis of economic governance, especially the commons," the way in
> which natural resources are managed as shared resources. It is an area
> of research that she said was relevant to questions surrounding global
> warming, and suggests that decisions by individuals can help solve the
> problem even as governments work to reach an international agreement.
>
>
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