Elinor Ostrom, First Woman Scientist to Win the Nobel Prize in Economics
The field of economics, one of the Nobel Prizes, has been awarded since 1968. In 2009, Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for the first time in this field.
The scientist Elinor Ostrom (born Awan) was born on August 7, 1933. She passed away on June 12, 2012. She is an American political scientist and economist. She won the Nobel Prize in Economics together with Oliver E. Williamson in 2009 for her original work, especially on the analysis of the economic control and operation of social goods. Thus, she became the first woman scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Elinor Claire “Lin” Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political economist whose work is associated with the New Institutional Economy and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his “analysis of economic governance, particularly the commons,” shared with Oliver E. Williamson. To date, she remains the first of only two women to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, the other being Esther Duflo.
B.A. after graduating with and Ph.D. Ostrom of UCLA lived in Bloomington, Indiana and served on the faculty of Indiana University with a late career relationship with Arizona State University. She is Distinguished Professor and Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and co-director of the Political Theory and Policy Analysis Workshop at Indiana University, research professor and. She was the founding director of the Center for Institutional Diversity Research at Arizona State University in Tempe. She was principal investigator for the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Assistance Program (SANREM CRSP), led by Virginia Tech and funded by USAID. From 2008, he and his wife, Vincent Ostrom, served as consultants to the Transnational Corporations Review magazine she.
