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Women who changed the world: Elinor Ostrom

Geoff Riley

30th July 2017

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A resource arrangement that works in practice is one that can work in theory!

A short video here on political scientist & Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom

Ostrom made a huge contribution to our understanding of how to overcome the Tragedy of the Commons including bottom-up self governance, social norms of proper conduct, voluntary mutually agreed rules & penalties

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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