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Elinor Ostrom, an Uncommon card
Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 154
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 93,000
Power 154 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson, she was the first woman to win the prize.
- Trained in political science at UCLA, Ostrom was a faculty member at Indiana University Bloomington for 47 years.
- Beginning in the 1960s, Ostrom was involved in resource management policy and created a research center, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, which attracted scientists from different disciplines from around the world.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Elinor Ostrom (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.


