Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide | Video on TE. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks | V. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything | Video on TED. Howard Rheingold on collaboration. Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.co. Urgent Evoke - A crash course in changing the world. Elinor Ostrom. Elinor "Lin" Ostrom (born Elinor Claire Awan;[2] August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political economist[3][4][5] whose work was associated with the New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy.[6] In 2009, she shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Oliver E.
Williamson for "her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons".[7] To date, she remains the only woman so honored. Ostrom lived in Bloomington, Indiana and served on the faculty of both Indiana University and Arizona State University. She held the rank of Distinguished Professor at Indiana University and was the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University in Bloomington, as well as Research Professor and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University in Tempe. Personal life and education[edit] Career[edit] 1990.