Profile of Elinor Ostrom

Foundations of Contemporary Economics: Elinor Ostrom and Common-Pool Resources

“…Причината за това те виждат в обстоятелството, че централизацията е свързана със загуба на информация по комуникационните канали, докато локалната организация борави поефективно с информацията. По-малките, полицентрични, автономни организационни структури обикновено се оказват по-резултатни в редица дейности, свързани с работата на полицията (McGinnis, 1999;Ostrom, 1971;Zagorski, 2006;Гладуел, 2022, с. 291-296;308-322;2015, с.…”

The Future of the Commons – Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation

“…Herald-Times (2009);Zagorski (2006).e l i n o r o s t r o m 's l i f e a n d w o r k t h e f u t u r e o f t h e c o m m o n s…”

Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons: A Discussion of Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

“…What leads to research in the social sciences that is valued by the wider community beyond the confines of a single discipline? Elinor Ostrom's career has combined myriad personal and institutional factors, leading to the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics: her involvement in the high school debate team to overcome stuttering; her refusal to accept the behaviors prescribed for women, leading her to attend graduate school (Mervis and Travis 2009, 658); the absence of a nepotism rule at Indiana that allowed her to obtain employment despite being married to Vincent Ostrom, who was already appointed there (Zagorski 2006); the Ostroms' 1973 cofounding of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, and the development of its experimental laboratory; the interdisciplinary orientation she further developed at Bielefeld's Center for Interdisciplinary Research; her ability to bring people and ideas together, knitting them into productive research agendas; and so on. In this essay, I want to focus on an aspect of her work potentially less well known to her political science colleagues: the fact that she conducted extensive fieldwork for her 628-page dissertation, “Public Entrepreneurship: A Case Study in Groundwater Management” (1965) and for her later research on policing (Ostrom, Parks, and Whitaker 1978).…”