Photo: Stan Jastrzebski
Elinor Ostrom talks to reporters after winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics.
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
