Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Claire Lin Ostrom was an American political economist whose work was associated with the New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Oliver E. Williamson for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons. To date, she remains the only woman to win The Prize in Economics.
Elinor Claire Awan was born in Los Angeles, California as the only child of Leah Hopkins, a musician, and Adrian Awan, a set designer. Her parents separated early in her life, and Elinor lived with her mother most of the time. She attended a Protestant church with her mother and often spent weekends with her fathers Jewish family. Growing up in the postDepression era to divorced artisans, Ostrom described herself as a poor kid.
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