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#108 Planet Money: Elinor Ostrom Checks In

#108 Planet Money: Elinor Ostrom Checks In

Planet Money vor 16 Jahren

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This month, Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom became the
first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics.

Ostrom explains her groundbreaking research into the public management of natural
resources. The political scientist argues that people should be empowered to
organize themselves in small ways that scale up to a global network. Government can
be helpful in doing that, but people shouldn't rely on it alone.