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marginalrevolution.com - 10/12/2009

Elinor Ostrom and the well-governed commons

— marginalrevolution.com — Elinor Ostrom may arguable be considered the mother of field work in development economics. She has worked... closely investigating water associations in Los Angeles, police departments in Indiana, and irrigation systems in Nepal. In each of these cases ... (more) Elinor Ostrom and the well-governed commons

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youtube.com - 10/10/2009

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize (video)

— youtube.com — Jackie and Dunlap weigh in on Obama's surprising Nobel Peace Prize win. Does he deserve it? Join... the Red State Update community at http://www.redstateupdate.... (more) Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize (video)

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professorbainbridge.com - 10/12/2009

ProfessorBainbridge: The Economics Nobel

— professorbainbridge.com — The 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has gone to Elinor... Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. Those of us who thought it should go to Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz are, thus, once again disappointed. (But at ... (more) ProfessorBainbridge: The Economics Nobel

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Nobel Fraud!
Ezra Klein — This year's Nobel prize in economics was awarded to Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom. But more precisely, this year's Nobel prize in economics was awarded to no one, because there is no such prize. Matt Yglesias explains: I would note that the Sveriges Riksbank itself deserves some kind of prize for its ability to get people to call its economics prize “the Nobel Prize.” Real Nobel Prizes are prizes awarded according to the endowment that Alfred Nobel set up. There are, of course, lots of other prizes in the world set up by other people. One such prize is this economics prize that the Swedish Central Bank decided to give out. But only the ...