The Nobel Foundation recognises the importance of The Commons
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The Nobel of Economy of this year was considered as a pretty special one. It was shared by Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson. Ostrom is the first woman to receive such prize. But more importantly, Ostrom's prize has been an unexpected surprise to the public as well as to economists and analysts, since most economists didin't know her, as former Nobel of Economy winner Joseph Stiglitz admitted.
This is mainly due to the fact that she is actually a political scientist, not an economist, and that her works have been focused in the management of common goods instead of the ...