Self-Organization & the Nobel Prize?

[douglas germann]

Harold--

That is good stuff! Thanks for alerting us.

		:- Doug.



On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 23:54 -0700, Harold Shinsato 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 by the people who use them, rather than
>         by governments or private companies.
>         
>         "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 scientist at Indiana University,
>         said during a brief session with reporters in Bloomington,
>         Ind.
> Sounds like self-organization to me...
> 
>     Harold
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