1933 - 2012
Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political economist whose work was associated with the New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.After graduating with a B.A. and Ph.D. in political science from UCLA, Ostrom lived in Bloomington, Indiana, and served on the faculty of Indiana University, with a late-career affiliation with Arizona State University. She was Distinguished Professor at Indiana University and the Arthur F. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elinor Ostrom has received more than 966,972 page views. Her biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Elinor Ostrom is the 38th most popular economist (down from 37th in 2019), the 503rd most popular biography from United States (up from 551st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Economist.
Elinor Ostrom is most famous for her work in the field of political economy, specifically in the study of economic governance. She is best known for her research on how communities can manage common resources, such as forests, fish, and water, without resorting to the use of government regulation.
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Among economists, Elinor Ostrom ranks 38 out of 315. Before her are Alexander Hamilton, Ronald Coase, Gunnar Myrdal, Léon Walras, Karl Polanyi, and Benjamin Graham. After her are Wassily Leontief, Ragnar Frisch, Thorstein Veblen, Friedrich List, Gary Becker, and Jacques Attali.
1755 - 1804
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 32
1910 - 2013
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 33
1898 - 1987
HPI: 67.01
Rank: 34
1834 - 1910
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 35
1886 - 1964
HPI: 66.95
Rank: 36
1894 - 1976
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 37
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 38
1906 - 1999
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 39
1895 - 1973
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 40
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 41
1789 - 1846
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 42
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 43
1943 - Present
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 44
Among people born in 1933, Elinor Ostrom ranks 27. Before her are Just Fontaine, Lina Medina, Paul Biya, Krzysztof Penderecki, Heinrich Rohrer, and Costa-Gavras. After her are Arno Allan Penzias, Wilbur Smith, Richard Rogers, Kim Novak, Philip Zimbardo, and Álvaro Siza Vieira. Among people deceased in 2012, Elinor Ostrom ranks 18. Before her are Jon Lord, George Tupou V, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Yitzhak Shamir, Ernest Borgnine, and Sylvia Kristel. After her are Robin Gibb, John Demjanjuk, Tony Scott, Roger Garaudy, Donna Summer, and Ravi Shankar.
1933 - Present
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 21
1933 - Present
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 22
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 23
1933 - 2020
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 24
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 25
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 26
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 27
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 28
1933 - 2021
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 29
1933 - 2021
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 30
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 31
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 32
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 33
1941 - 2012
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 12
1948 - 2012
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 13
1909 - 2012
HPI: 67.46
Rank: 14
1915 - 2012
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 15
1917 - 2012
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 16
1952 - 2012
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 17
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 18
1949 - 2012
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 19
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 20
1944 - 2012
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 21
1913 - 2012
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 22
1948 - 2012
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 23
1920 - 2012
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 24
Among people born in United States, Elinor Ostrom ranks 503 out of 18,182. Before her are Liza Minnelli (1946), Richard Widmark (1914), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Harriet Tubman (1820), and Paul Simon (1941). After her are Melvin Calvin (1911), Ruth Benedict (1887), Immanuel Wallerstein (1930), Florence Foster Jenkins (1868), John Kerry (1943), and Robert Mitchum (1917).
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 497
1914 - 2008
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 498
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 499
1953 - 2019
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 500
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 501
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 502
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 503
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 504
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 505
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 506
1868 - 1944
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 507
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 508
1917 - 1997
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 509
Among economists born in United States, Elinor Ostrom ranks 7. Before her are Milton Friedman (1912), Philip Kotler (1931), Paul Samuelson (1915), Michael Porter (1947), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), and Herbert A. Simon (1916). After her are Thorstein Veblen (1857), Gary Becker (1930), Douglass North (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), W. Edwards Deming (1900), and Irving Fisher (1867).
1912 - 2006
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 1
1931 - Present
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 2
1915 - 2009
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 3
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 4
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 5
1916 - 2001
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 6
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 7
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 8
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 9
1920 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 10
1921 - 2017
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 11
1900 - 1993
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 12
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 13