Harold-- That is good stuff! Thanks for alerting us.
:- Doug. On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 23:54 -0700, Harold Shinsato wrote: > This news is a month old, but I got it from an message from a friend > last month which the holidays are finally letting me catch up with in > my email inbox. (I am present by the way, in case anyone wondered.) > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/12/nobel-prize-for-economics_n_317150.html > > One of five female Nobel Prize winners this year, Elinor Ostrom, 76, > won for her work on economic governance. From the link above: > Ostrom showed how common resources – forests, fisheries, > oilfields, grazing lands and irrigation systems – can be > managed successfully by the people who use them, rather than > by governments or private companies. > > "What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the > importance of real involvement of the people involved – as > opposed to just having somebody in Washington ... make a > rule," Ostrom, a political scientist at Indiana University, > said during a brief session with reporters in Bloomington, > Ind. > Sounds like self-organization to me... > > Harold > * * ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To > subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about > OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist