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Elinor Ostrom

1933 - 2012

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Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson; she was the first woman to win the prize. Trained in political science at UCLA, Ostrom was a faculty member at Indiana University Bloomington for 47 years. Beginning in the 1960s, Ostrom was involved in resource management policy and created a research center, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, which attracted scientists from different disciplines from around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elinor Ostrom is the 33rd most popular economist, the 561st most popular biography from United States (down from 462nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Economist.

Elinor Ostrom is most famous for her work in the field of political economy, specifically in the study of economic governance. She is best known for her research on how communities can manage common resources, such as forests, fish, and water, without resorting to the use of government regulation.

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Among economists, Elinor Ostrom ranks 33 out of 414. Before her are Jean-Baptiste Say, Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Gunnar Myrdal, Henri Fayol, and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. After her are Charles Cooley, Maurice Allais, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Simon Kuznets, Carl Menger, and Michael Porter.

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Among people born in 1933, Elinor Ostrom ranks 27. Before her are Arno Allan Penzias, Susan Sontag, Amartya Sen, Paul Biya, Paul J. Crutzen, and Philip Roth. After her are Krzysztof Penderecki, Corazon Aquino, Mako, Richard R. Ernst, Fouad Mebazaa, and Ronald Evans. Among people deceased in 2012, Elinor Ostrom ranks 18. Before her are Yitzhak Shamir, Ahmed Ben Bella, Theo Angelopoulos, George Tupou V, Eric Hobsbawm, and Michael Clarke Duncan. After her are Jon Lord, Ernest Borgnine, Roger Garaudy, Matilde Camus, Tony Scott, and Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elinor Ostrom ranks 561 out of 20,380. Before her are Pontiac (1714), Dick Cheney (1941), Herbert A. Hauptman (1917), Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), Charles M. Schulz (1922), and Jesse James (1847). After her are Dan Brown (1964), Shirley Temple (1928), Harper Lee (1926), Jodie Foster (1962), Vesto Slipher (1875), and Eugene O'Neill (1888).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Elinor Ostrom ranks 8. Before her are Milton Friedman (1912), George Shultz (1920), William F. Sharpe (1934), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), Paul Samuelson (1915), and Joseph Stiglitz (1943). After her are Charles Cooley (1864), Michael Porter (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), Gary Becker (1930), and Jeffrey Sachs (1954).

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