“The Tragedy of the Commons” was a grim but accepted theory of common resource management until Elinor and Vincent Ostrom came along. The theory put forth by biologist Garrett Hardin in 1968 suggested ...

Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics, died Tuesday. She was the first woman to win the prize and a little bit of a reach outside the committee’s normal comfort zone of ...

I have just returned from an undergraduate multidisciplinary class that my colleague (Bart Wilson) and I teach, "Foundations of Economic Exchange." Fortuitously, the class readings for today included ...

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, an Indiana University political economist who in 2009 became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics by demonstrating that local communities can manage imperiled natural ...

Elinor Ostrom was an unusual choice for the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. For one thing, she is the first woman to receive the prize. Her Ph.D. is in political science, not economics ...

Like every authoritarian before him, Trump is working to co-opt news sources and control what the public sees and hears. Too many corporate outlets are bending the knee—but not Common Dreams. We will ...

Elinor Ostrom’s career was filled with a number of firsts — most notably the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. On Thursday, she received another honor posthumously when a statue ...

Elinor Ostrom is an American political scientist. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson, for "her analysis of economic ...