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Elinor Ostrom

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Professor Elinor 'Lin' Ostrom

Ostrom was best known for her studies of how local groups manage natural resources.

Reason Staff | 1.7.2021 6:00 AM

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Culture

How Kids Build, Learn, and Resolve Their Fights in a Video Game World

Anarchy, Minecraft, and utopia

Jesse Walker | 4.25.2016 12:30 PM

Politics

Centralized Policing Is the Wrong Solution

Elinor Ostrom and the case against centralization

Jesse Walker | 12.17.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Elinor Ostrom, Scholar Who Argued for Decentralization, RIP

Jesse Walker | 6.12.2012 11:22 AM

Politics

The Talking Cure for the Tragedy of the Commons

Bad things happen when governments keep people from cutting their own deals on resource management

Ronald Bailey | 6.8.2010 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

The Polycentric Parking System

Jesse Walker | 1.5.2010 9:00 AM

Economics

Self-Governance Works

Elinor Ostrom's research shows that free people can overcome the "tragedy of the commons"

John Stossel | 10.29.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

A Nobel Prize for Showing That Freedom Works

Why Elinor Ostrom won

John Stossel | 10.22.2009 12:00 PM

Elinor Ostrom

Larry David Explains Why Elinor Ostrom Won the Nobel Prize in Economics

Radley Balko | 10.13.2009 10:11 AM

Economics

Elinor Ostrom on the Market, the State, and the Third Sector

The remarkable achievements of the Nobel Prize-winning economist

Paul Aligica | 10.12.2009 5:30 PM

Policy

The Bonds of Life

Society depends on rules. But what sort of rules enliven our world--and what sort stifle it?

Virginia Postrel | 1.1.1999 12:00 AM

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