Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist who became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in economics, died June 12 at a hospital in Bloomington, Ind. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

Nobel In Economics Goes To 2 Americans, 1st Woman : The Two-Way Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics. She shares it with Oliver Williamson. The Two-Way ...

Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Economics, speaks to host Michele Norris. Ostrom, a 76-year-old professor of political science at Indiana University, shares the $1.4 million ...

On the selection of Elinor Ostrom for the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy in 1997, I was invited to the award ceremony to say a few words. A colleague asked me who the ...

American economists Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, who study the way economic decisions are made outside markets, were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday. Ms. Ostrom, who teaches at ...