Enrichment
Women who changed the world: Elinor Ostrom
30th July 2017
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
Women who changed the world: Elinor Ostrom #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/pZAumaySwx
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) July 28, 2017
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 over thirty 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 conferences in the UK and overseas.
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