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 ...

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 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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The concept or perspective of ‘commons’ has for some years now been drawing in large numbers of people and groups from all over the world, and it has had a significant impact on spheres of debate and ...