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 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.

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, 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about political economy and foreign affairs. This article is more than 10 years old. The social science world awoke to sad ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Elinor Ostrom was a pioneer in ecology, whose research challenged the fallacy of the 'tragedy of the commons' where the needs of one ruin what is shared by many. Here DEREK WALL celebrates the first - ...

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 ...