Nobel Prize Lecture Information
Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize Lecture will be held on Tuesday, December 8, from 3:00-3:40 p.m. (STOCKHOLM TIME) at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. All lectures will be given in English, and a live web cast will be available on the Nobel Foundation website.
The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony will be held on Thursday, December 10, at 4:30 p.m. (STOCKHOLM TIME) at the Stockholm Concert Hall. For live web cast of the ceremony, go to: http://nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/ceremony_sthlm/video/2009/index.html
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Elinor Ostrom wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom, a past president, founding member, and active inspiration to the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) has been selected as a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. In awarding the prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted it is "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons".
“Many natural resources, such as fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes, and groundwater basins are managed as common property. That is, many users have access to the resource in ques¬tion. If we want to halt the degradation of our natural environment and prevent a repetition of the many collapses of natural-resource stocks experienced in the past, we should learn from the successes and failures of common-property regimes. Ostrom’s work teaches us novel les¬sons about the deep mechanisms that sustain cooperation in human societies.”
For those who want to send their congratulations to Dr. Ostrom, the IASC website blog will be collecting congratulatory comments. You can add your comments on the IASC blog.
The theme of the award is Economic governance: the organization of cooperation. Dr. Ostrom shares the award with Oliver E. Williamson "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm".
The International Association for the Study of the Commons congratulates Dr. Ostrom for this well-deserved recognition of her research on “Governing the Commons”, and we all want to let her know how privileged we feel to have her as a mentor and colleague in IASC.
We encourage anyone interested in more information to read the prize committee’s excellent overviews of the contributions of these new laureates, with versions for the general public and for the scientific community.
Her first press conference is available at the website of Indiana University.
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