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Elinor Ostrom wins the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics

October 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Professor Elinor Ostrom has been awarded the Nobel prize in Economics for her work on common pool resources (CPRs) and the management of shared resources.  Her work has great relevance for understanding the creation of many public goods on the internet.  She teaches at Indiana University where she is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political [...]

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