Monday, October 12, 2009

Women wins nobel peace prize in Economics

Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, along with fellow American Oliver Williamson for analyzing economic governance, on Monday.

Ostrom, a political scientist at Indiana University, showed how common resources — forests, fisheries, oil fields or grazing lands — can be managed by the people who use them succesfully as opposed to a government agency.

Ostrom was also the fifth woman to win a Nobel award this year. She was also one of the 11 american’s who wom an nobel peace prize this year.

4 comments:

  1. Fifth woman to win a nobel prize! That's awesome! Very interesting article, you did a great job summarizing everything.

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  2. Go Women! Just kidding but that is awesome.

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  3. That's awesome! Its amazing that only five women have won ever. Its almost unbelievable.

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  4. Grade: 8.5/10
    Mistakes:
    • Was it Williamson or Ostrom who analyze economic governance?
    • A should be capitalized in Americans
    • Americans is plural not possessive and doesn't need the apostrophe

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