Author Profile: Peter Boettke

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Peter Boettke (pboettke@gmu.edu) is the deputy director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, and an economics professor at George Mason University. He is the coauthor, with Paul Dragos Aligica, of Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development (2009), a book about the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom.
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Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize in Economics
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Posted in Articles on 15 October 2009
Stats: 1,009 views and 2 Comments Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also one of the most iconoclastic thinkers to win the prize. Professor Ostrom’s work focuses on the mechanisms of self-governance that operate in different societies.


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