1st woman wins Nobel in economics
Posted: October 13, 2009 at 4:44 a.m.
Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, honored along with fellow American Oliver Williamson on Monday for analyzing economic governance — the rules by which people exercise authority in companies and economic systems.
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