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Two Humboldtians Receive the Nobel Prize for Economics
This year’s Nobel Prize for Economics is shared by the Reimar Lüst Award Winner Elinor Ostrom and the Humboldt Research Award Winner Oliver E. Williamson.
A total of 43 academics from the Humboldt Network have now been awarded the Nobel Prize. Elinor Ostrom is not only the first woman to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics but the first female Humboldtian ever to receive the Nobel Prize.
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Elinor Ostrom
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Elinor Ostrom is a Professor of Politics at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. Using an interdisciplinary approach she has become one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of institutional analysis, specialising in the use of common goods. Ostrom has been responsible for inviting many German guest researchers to the USA in the context of an exchange programme she established. In May of this year she was awarded the Reimar Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange, which is granted jointly by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The Lüst Award Winner will now continue a joint research project she has started with Konrad Hagedorn from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the context of the Humboldt Foundation’s TransCoop Programme, and cooperate with Michael Kirk of the University of Marburg.
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Oliver E. Williamson
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UC Berkeley |
Oliver Williamson is an Emeritus Professor of Business, Economicsand Law at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Already in 1987 he was awarded the Humboldt Research Award for his seminal achievements in the field of institutional economics. The consequent research visit to Germany took him to the Saarland University in 1991, where he worked alongside Rudolf Richter. For 2010 he is planning a further stay in Germany. In his role as a host, Williamson also supervises Humboldt Foundation’s German Feodor Lynen Research Fellows in the USA.
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