What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people involved - versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

She was awarded the 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel which Elinor Ostrom shared with Oliver E. g. American Political Science Review 92(1) 1–22.

She was awarded the 2009 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel which Elinor Ostrom shared with Oliver E. She and her husband Vincent Ostrom advised the journal Transnational Corporations Review beginning in 2008. Her work was associated with the new institutional economics and the resurgence of political economy.