Self-Organization & the Nobel Prize?

[Christine Whitney Sanchez]

Harold,

I am present again, still, feeling great appreciation for what you  
have shared and whAt we all share.

Christine

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:54 PM, Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com>  
wrote:

> 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 b 
> y the people who use them, rather than by governments or private com 
> panies.
>
> "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 scienti 
> st at Indiana University, said during a brief session with reporters 
>  in Bloomington, Ind.
> Sounds like self-organization to me...
>
>     Harold
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