Nice lady who liked to research what actually worked
Elinor Ostrom poses for a portrait, after becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, in Bloomington, Ind., Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. Ostrom, a political scientist at Indiana University, showed how common resources _ forests, fisheries, oil fields or grazing lands _ can be managed successfully by the people who use them, rather than by governments or private companies.(AP Photo/AJ Mast)



