Talk:Elinor Ostrom

Organizing Research Section
As Elinor Ostrom is primarily notable as scholar, an her life is inextricable woven with her intellectual work, large part of the article ought to be organized around the areas of study that she undertook, why she was interested in them, and the theories that should be developed. This article should not seek to explain all of her theories in depth. Specific articles about the ideas are for that. The quality of this article of course depends on the quality of related articles.

I think this article should be organized chronologically so as to present Ostrom's overall intellectual and personal development over time. Theories should be well summarized but interleaved with the texts. Ostrom's later work is more about the synthesis of theory but she also has lots of empirical work e.g. about Watersheds, police departments and so on. The article should present this stuff too.

Here's a brief outline (in progress). 1. Dissertation on California Watersheds
 * 1) Research

2. Centralized vs Local Policing

3. Other topics to be added Groceryheist (talk) 01:06, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Comments
It has also been anounced (see http://info.uu.se/press.nsf/pm/uppsala.universitets.id55D.html) that Ostrom will receive a honorary doctor's degree from Uppsala University in the memory of Carl von Linné, in spring of 2007. PJ 10:54, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

See also a profile of Ostrom here that was published in PNAS: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1748208#B7 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.112.151.175 (talk) 16:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC) thank you for all yehualashetgulilat0@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.55.90.5 (talk) 16:05, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Chicago
If she's a member of the Chicago School, and she's won a Nobel Prize (which she just did today), shouldn't she be significant enough to have a link to her profile in the box for Chicago School Economists? Orpheus42 (talk) 11:35, 12 October 2009 (UTC)


 * We can't determine if she's a member of the Chicago School, whoever added that lower box is incorrect. She hasn't published any work in areas that would allow us to distinguish if she is a member of the Chicago School of thought (i.e. her views on monetarism, the efficient market hypothesis, etc.) so we cannot say if she is a freshwater economist. It is only clear she work in New Institutional Economics. Seelum (talk) 14:00, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Background
There is nothing at all about her background, where she was born, where she went to school until college.

Also, I'm a bit curious how a political scientist and a scholar whose main notoriety has been the study of diversity, wins the Nobel prize for economics. Perhaps, someone could explain. . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.61.133.254 (talk) 18:03, 12 October 2009 (UTC)


 * This isn't really about the article, but I'll explain. Ostrom challenged the assumption that common property, things like lakes, fisheries, forests etc are poorly managed. Because there are limited resources, but it is universally owned it was believed that individually power users would exploit the weaker positions of others to gain more, because their is no rule-enforcing mechanism. The solutions derived by economists were either to privatize it entirely, or let government take it over and levy taxes on consumption (Pigovian tax). However, she found through empirical results and some game theory that under certain situations incentive rules and collective mechanism of enforcement and arise out of the management of these properties. She further demonstrated that government can, on occasion, be detrimental to the resource because of its asymmetrical information regarding the local area. This changed the way we consider people to organize themselves and implement rules in cooperation and has implication in cooperative situations outside of economics as well. Seelum (talk) 15:46, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

climate change
The section on climate change is premature, it consists mostly of the two speculative sentences, "Elinor Ostrom's work may help fight climate change. Her work exploring how people come together to preserve their collective resources may provide important clues in addressing global warming." While the speculation is referenced, it's still speculation.

Has any major part of Ostrom's work been focused on climate change? That would merit a section. (I know she has an interest, for instance, she was one of the signers of this letter to Science, but is there more to it than that?) C RETOG 8(t/c) 18:03, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Maiden name?
I assume Ostrom is the name of her husband. What's her maiden name?--Victor Chmara (talk) 20:39, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Awan. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 15:34, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Missing information on education
In the 'personal life and education section', there is missing information regarding Elinor Ostrom's rejection for an economics PHD: As a high school student, Elinor Ostrom had been discouraged from studying Trigonometry, as girls without top marks in Algebra and Geometry were not allowed to take the subject. She was consequently rejected for an economics PhD at UCLA — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whileworth (talk • contribs) 10:29, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Amavilah's comment on this article
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""She conducted her field studies on the management of pasture by locals in Africa (e.g., Kenya) and irrigation systems management in villages of western Nepal (e.g., Dang Deukhuri) -- Reference: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2009/ostrom-bio.html.

"As she describes it herself in the her Nobel Prize Lecture (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2009/ostrom_lecture.pdf), Ostrom's work in this regard challenged conventional wisdom, showing that common resources can be successfully managed without government regulation or privatization.[34]"

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 * Reference : Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich, 2009. "Globalization, governance, and the economic performance of Sub-Saharan Africa," MPRA Paper 15600, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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From my browser and location, #1 works and #2 redirects to #1. Can you verify? -- Green  C  23:43, 7 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @GreenC oh you are right. my mistake Groceryheist (talk) 00:17, 8 April 2024 (UTC)