Elinor Ostrom

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First Woman to Win Nobel in Economics Dead at 78

Elinor Ostrom's work showed how citizens could manage natural resources

(Newser) - Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University professor of political science and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, died of cancer this morning at age 78, a university spokesman announced today. Ostrom shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for economics with Oliver Williamson from the University of California Berkeley....

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