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The Utility of Self-Governance: Elinor Ostrom's Contributions to Knowledge

In awarding the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics to Elinor (Lin) Ostrom, the Nobel Committee cited her “...analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.” While this language may seem obscure, Ostrom—together with her collaborator and husband Vincent—has devoted her scholarly career to studying dilemmas that are recognizable to citizens all over the globe. She has explored the conditions under which individuals successfully collaborate to allocate and preserve scarce natural resources outside of formal governmental institutions and in lieu of government regulations. In particular, Ostrom has focused on common pool resources such as grazing lands which face the danger of being depleted due to overuse, explaining how communities might work together to meet the challenge of resource preservation. Over the course of forty years, Ostrom and her students have applied their theories to explain the successful governance of common pool resources as diverse as lobster fisheries in New England, forests in Indiana, Bolivia, Uganda and Tanzania, and irrigation systems in Nepal.