Elinor Ostrom, prima femeie laureata cu premiul Nobel pentru economie

Oliver Williamson a dezvoltat o teorie in care firmele de afaceri servesc ca structuri pentru rezolvarea conflictelor, se arata in motivarea Comitetului Nobel.

Elinor Ostrom este profesor de stiinte politice, codirector al Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis si al Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations, and Environ­mental Change din cadrul Indiana University.

Printre volumele publicate se numara: Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development : Infrastructure Policies in Per­spec­tive (coautor, Westview Press, 1993), Rules, Games, and Common?Pool Resources (coautor, University of Michigan Press, 1994), Understanding Institutional Diversity (Princeton University Press, 2005).