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 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 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, ...
“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 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.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish. It's time now for your letters and one correction. Yesterday, we remembered Elinor Ostrom, ...
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, England promulgated the Enclosure Acts, which were responsible for privatizing (and fencing in) the lands for grazing livestock, so that they could be ...
IT SEEMED to Elinor Ostrom that the world contained a large body of common sense. People, left to themselves, would sort out rational ways of surviving and getting along. Although the world's arable ...
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