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October 12, 2009 at 8:27 am
Trey
That’s because her name is Elinor.
October 12, 2009 at 9:03 am
jeff
🙂 fixed.
March 21, 2014 at 1:17 am
Open
La frase de Levitt me parece que dersicbe muy bien el sentimiento de muchos economistas: “So the short answer is that the economics profession is going to hate the prize going to Ostrom even more than Republicans hated the Peace prize going to Obama.”En lo personal sed me parece un poco decepcionante y desmotivante que la primera mujer que gana el premio Nobel de Economeda sea una Doctora en Ciencia Poledtica.En cuanto a que el Nobel de Economeda este1 tendiendo a ser un Nobel de las Ciencias Sociales, esto se ire1 confirmando (o refutando) en los prf3ximos nombramientos. Sin embargo, yo espero que se mantenga como un premio Econf3mico aunque ya no tenga la misma credibilidad que hace varios af1os.
October 12, 2009 at 8:39 am
Jonathan
So what rock have you been hiding under?.
True, her work is not exactly mainstream in the economics profession (not enough equations) but it’s hard to read anything about the theory and experimental/field evidence on collective action without stumbling over her.
October 12, 2009 at 8:50 am
Chris
We were lunching today with 8 people from the econ department and no one knew her.
October 12, 2009 at 9:22 am
Dimitrios Diamantaras
The dangers of overspecialization are manifested here. I also did not know about Ostrom really (but I had heard of her) until I decided to introduce an empirical chapter to the book I was working on (now published as _A Toolbox for Economic Design_), regarding mechanism design. It was a stretch for me, but worth it, and I still want to master Ostrom’s opus better, on its merits, not just because she won the prize.
October 12, 2009 at 9:24 am
tom s.
I am surprised to see that on this blog as she deals with collective action. From prisoner’s dilemma to Mancur Olson (Logic of Collective Action) to Elinor Ostrom is not a difficult path to trace.
But then, when I did chemistry I had often not heard of the nobel winner either.
October 12, 2009 at 10:49 am
Ed Lopez
For every economist you now respect and deem worthy, there was a time when you had never heard of them.
October 12, 2009 at 11:17 am
insurance
This is a total rip off! Everyone knows that Obama should have won the Nobel in Economic Science. Obviously the Nobel committee did not realize that Obama should win in every category. He has been just as successful in economics as he has in peace…I wonder is racism is involved?
October 12, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Nobel Prize: Ostrom and Williamson « Cheap Talk
[…] Ed Glaeser does a great job describing the work of the two Nobel Laureates. But I’m with Jeff and Levitt is never having heard of or read the work of Elinor Ostrom. Looking at the Nobel […]
October 12, 2009 at 4:33 pm
mc
“Raise the drawbridge!” said the flea…
October 13, 2009 at 9:56 am
Lones Smith
Paul Romer helps us: http://chartercities.org/blog/72/skyhooks-versus-cranes-the-nobel-prize-for-elinor-ostrom