[OSList] Self-Organization & the Nobel Prize?

[Harold Shinsato]

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