FAMOUS FIRSTS
Elinor Ostrom
- I was born in Los Angeles in 1933. I studied political economy and spent most of my career on the faculty of Indiana University.
- In 2009, I was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
- I received the Nobel Prize for my analysis of the economic governance of either natural or constructed resource systems that people have in common, such as forests.
- I was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University at Tempe.