Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom
Political economist of commons governance and institutional diversity
Official Source Note
Nobel Prize materials identify Ostrom as the 2009 economics laureate for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons, and describe her comparative field research on community management of shared natural resources.
Ostrom is included because her work shows that durable governance can emerge through locally designed rules, monitoring, sanctions, and participation, complicating simple choices between privatization and state control.
Source: Nobel Prize
Relevance to the Archive
Ostrom broadens law and economics beyond market-state binaries by directing attention to monitoring, graduated sanctions, rule-making participation, nested governance, and institutional fit.
Representative Contributions
- Governing the Commons (1990)
- Understanding Institutional Diversity (2005)
- Beyond Markets and States (2010)
Works Included Here
1990
Advanced
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
Elinor Ostrom
Cambridge University Press