A Conversation With Elinor Ostrom

By Arianna Prothero

Published September 12, 2019 at 1:30 PM EDT

This week on Noon Edition: a conversation with Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom. She was in-studio talking about her whirlwind year as well as her work. Some highlights from today's program include:

Discussion on the theory that made Dr. Ostrom the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for economics

Local examples of her research and theories in action from township trustees to farmers markets

Ways local government is applying Dr. Ostrom's work

And a recounting of the day Dr. Ostrom learned she had won a Nobel Prize

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