Pioneering commons researcher Elinor Ostrom has died

Shareable has a reminder of the work of Elinor Ostrom, a political science researcher who identified how commons-based economies work effectively and the first (and so far only) woman to win the Nobel Prize for economists.

Here’s Cumbrian farmer Thomas Capstick talking about farming on the Howgill Fell commons, in a wonderful video produced and directed by Tom LLoyd.

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