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Thinker

Elinor Ostrom

Political economist who showed how communities govern common-pool resources; shared the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Key ideas

ConceptCommons governanceManagement of shared resources by their users through locally devised rules, rather than by privatisation or central state control.

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