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Elinor Ostrom

Political economist; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 2009

United States · 1933–2012

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Political scientist at Indiana University Bloomington who studied how communities govern shared resources such as fisheries, forests and irrigation systems. In 2009 she became the first woman awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret read 81 other answers →
Yes. Having lived through an era, where I was thinking of going to graduate school and was strongly discouraged because I would never be able to do anything but teach in a city college … Ah ha ha, life has changed!
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview recorded immediately after the prize announcement, Nobel Prize Outreach, 12 October 2009 source ↗

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