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Elinor Ostrom

1933–2012

Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012) was a groundbreaking political economist and the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2009) for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons. She challenged conventional wisdom by demonstrating that communities can sustainably manage shared resources through self-organized institutions, without privatization or top-down regulation. Her work integrated insights from political science, economics, and anthropology, emphasizing empirical fieldwork and institutional diversity.

Economics

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (1990)
Understanding Institutional Diversity (2005)
Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (2010)
The Drama of the Commons (2002, co-edited)
Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (1994, with Roy Gardner and James Walker)
Trust and Reciprocity: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research (2003, co-edited)
Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (Nobel lecture, 2009)
A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change (2009, with Vincent Ostrom)

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