Americans Ostrom, Williamson win Nobel economics
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for their work in economic governance.
Ostrom was the first woman to win the prize since it was founded in 1968, and the fifth woman to win a Nobel award this year - a Nobel record.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance," saying her work had demonstrated how common property can be successfully managed by groups using it.
Williamson, the academy said, developed a theory where business firms serve as structures for conflict resolution.
"Over the last three decades, these seminal contributions have advanced economic governance research from the fringe to the forefront of scientific attention," the academy said.
The economics prize was the last Nobel award to be announced this year. It's not one of the original Nobel Prizes, but was created by the Swedish central bank in Alfred Nobel's memory.
Nobel Prize winners receive 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.4 million), a gold medal and diploma from the Swedish king on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896.
Last week, American scientists Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer.
The physics prize was split between Charles K. Kao, who helped develop fiberoptic cable, and Americans Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith who invented the "eye" in digital cameras.
Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath of Israel shared the chemistry prize for their atom-by-atom description of ribosomes.
Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the literature prize and on Friday, President Barack Obama was named this year's winner of the peace prize.
- Re: Elinor Ostrom, first woman to share the Nobel economics prize with Oliver Williamsonposted on 10/12/2009
touche wrote:
Ostrom was the first woman to win the prize since it was founded in 1968, and the fifth woman to win a Nobel award this year - a Nobel record.
She is a political scientist. - Re: Elinor Ostrom, first woman to share the Nobel economics prize with Oliver Williamsonposted on 10/13/2009
老太太我还没听说过呢。还要等读过她的诺贝尔的获奖演讲后才能断定她的份量如何,希望不是安慰奖。;)
有本事的人都是问题导向,从来不理学科地盘的。她是政治学出身,但所作的贡献被称之为政治经济学的。无所谓。不过对小蜜蜂是个很好的鼓舞。咖啡客得诺贝尔奖,最看好的就是小蜜蜂了。所以戒了绝对相对的太极拳,get down to the real issues。;) - Re: Elinor Ostrom, first woman to share the Nobel economics prize with Oliver Williamsonposted on 10/13/2009
touche wrote:
老太太我还没听说过呢。还要等读过她的诺贝尔的获奖演讲后才能断定她的份量如何,希望不是安慰奖。;)
有本事的人都是问题导向,从来不理学科地盘的。她是政治学出身,但所作的贡献被称之为政治经济学的。无所谓。不过对小蜜蜂是个很好的鼓舞。咖啡客得诺贝尔奖,最看好的就是小蜜蜂了。所以戒了绝对相对的太极拳,get down to the real issues。;)
哎,图教授,你这几句话实在让我臊得慌啊。我不过是知识的大海里的一只小虾米---小虾米大概都不是,大概就是浮游生物:),什么糯背耳不糯背耳啊。
再说,我小时候读水浒,看到史进说他的理想是:讨个出身,求半世快活。
当时一读之下就痴了。我没有讨个出身的压力,“求半世快活”以后就成了我的人生理想,当然这快活只和爱情相关:)。
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说真的,老太太这个奖对POLITICAL SCIENTISTS有多大鼓舞还真说不上。这行的人不大感冒这些“虚”的东西。当然,这个奖对老太太本人的成就是个肯定。不过老太太有多需要它也说不上。她是APSA前主席,这已经很够了。
政治学大部分有名的学者,公众知名度都相当低。有人做过统计,人文和社会科学里,政治学是出公众知识分子最少的行业。要达到亨廷顿那样的公众知名度,那得相当CONTROVERSIAL才可以。这不大符合政治学者的风格。
老太太的研究主要是组织理论和公众选择。学术谱系上来说,是要对照MANCUR OLSON的理论。
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最近这行最闹腾的新闻算是哦克拉荷马的参议员TOM COBURN提案要求废除NSF对政治学的FUNDING. 这位老兄说,各位要了解政治,去看CNN和FOXNEWS就可以了:)。
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至于太极拳,咖啡馆不就适合玄谈和胡扯吗?:)
- Re: Elinor Ostrom, first woman to share the Nobel economics prize with Oliver Williamsonposted on 10/13/2009
“求半世快活”以后就成了我的人生理想,当然这快活只和爱情相关:)。
哦,原来这样!我才开始明白原来abee来咖啡是来追求人生理想的。abee咖啡里唱凤求凰,“有艳淑女在闺房,室迩人遐毒我肠”。
各位老哥老姐,我们都来帮abee实现人生理想。 - Re: Elinor Ostrom, first woman to share the Nobel economics prize with Oliver Williamsonposted on 10/13/2009
maya wrote:
哦,原来这样!我才开始明白原来abee来咖啡是来追求人生理想的。abee咖啡里唱凤求凰,“有艳淑女在闺房,室迩人遐毒我肠”。
各位老哥老姐,我们都来帮abee实现人生理想。
哎,玛姐,你是这里的老佛爷,今天的节目是拿我开心吗?:)
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