Really liking this post over at Huffington, um, Post:

"Elinor Ostrom has challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized. Based on numerous studies of user-managed fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes, and groundwater basins, Ostrom concludes that the outcomes are, more often than not, better than predicted by standard theories. She observes that resource users frequently develop sophisticated mechanisms for decision-making and rule enforcement to handle conflicts of interest, and she characterizes the rules that promote successful outcomes."
Make no mistake, despite the somewhat tame Nobel committee description, Ostrom's body of work is inherently radical....

I smile thinking of Lin thinking of herself winning a Nobel for being radical.

:-)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-amster/why-ostroms-nobel-is-even_b...