Prue Hyman remembers Elinor Ostrom, Nobel prize winner, who proved that co-operation can beat competition.
The only woman to win a Nobel for economics
Elinor Ostrom is the only woman to have won the Nobel prize for economics and like many sensible women active on economic policy, she was not an orthodox economist.
As a political economist and academic, she won the prize in 2009 for work in public economics and sadly died just three years later. Her work encourages grassroots activism which should excite us all!
(full story Aug. 8)
