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. To date, she remains the first of only two women to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, the other being Esther Duflo. After graduating with a B.A. and Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elinor Ostrom has received more than 758,087 page views. Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Elinor Ostrom is the 37th most popular economist (down from 34th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from United States (down from 468th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American 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 37 out of 315. Before her are Gunnar Myrdal, Carl Menger, Michael Porter, Karl Polanyi, Léon Walras, and Jan Tinbergen. After her are Werner Sombart, Oliver E. Williamson, Bernard Mandeville, John Hicks, Gary Becker, and Alexander Hamilton.
1898 - 1987
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 31
1840 - 1921
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 32
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 33
1886 - 1964
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 34
1834 - 1910
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 35
1903 - 1994
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 36
1933 - 2012
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 37
1863 - 1941
HPI: 73.71
Rank: 38
1932 - 2020
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 39
1670 - 1733
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 40
1904 - 1989
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 41
1930 - 2014
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 42
1755 - 1804
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 43
Among people born in 1933, Elinor Ostrom ranks 23. Before her are Philip Roth, Tinto Brass, Amartya Sen, Francisco Gento, Susan Sontag, and Arno Allan Penzias. After her are Costa-Gavras, Corazon Aquino, Oliver Sacks, Richard Rogers, Bernardo Provenzano, and Gene Wilder. Among people deceased in 2012, Elinor Ostrom ranks 16. Before her are Ahmed Ben Bella, Yitzhak Shamir, Theo Angelopoulos, Michael Clarke Duncan, Ernest Borgnine, and Carroll Shelby. After her are George Tupou V, Sylvia Kristel, John Demjanjuk, Roger Garaudy, Donna Summer, and Robin Gibb.
1933 - 2018
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 17
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 18
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 19
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 20
1933 - 2004
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 21
1933 - Present
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 22
1933 - 2012
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 23
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 24
1933 - 2009
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 25
1933 - 2015
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 26
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 27
1933 - 2016
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 28
1933 - 2016
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 29
1916 - 2012
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 10
1915 - 2012
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 11
1935 - 2012
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 12
1957 - 2012
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 13
1917 - 2012
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 14
1923 - 2012
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 15
1933 - 2012
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 16
1948 - 2012
HPI: 73.84
Rank: 17
1952 - 2012
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 18
1920 - 2012
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 19
1913 - 2012
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 20
1948 - 2012
HPI: 73.24
Rank: 21
1949 - 2012
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 22
Among people born in United States, Elinor Ostrom ranks 551 out of 15,968. Before her are Buckminster Fuller (1895), Romina Power (1951), Kevin Spacey (1959), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Clifford Geertz (1926), and Kamehameha I (1758). After her are Eddie Murphy (1961), Henry Mancini (1924), Philip Glass (1937), Lon Chaney (1883), Sean Penn (1960), and Lewis H. Morgan (1818).
1895 - 1983
HPI: 74.10
Rank: 545
1951 - Present
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 546
1959 - Present
HPI: 74.08
Rank: 547
1839 - 1903
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 548
1926 - 2006
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 549
1758 - 1819
HPI: 74.06
Rank: 550
1933 - 2012
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 551
1961 - Present
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 552
1924 - 1994
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 553
1937 - Present
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 554
1883 - 1930
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 555
1960 - Present
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 556
1818 - 1881
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 557
Among economists born in United States, Elinor Ostrom ranks 7. Before her are Milton Friedman (1912), Philip Kotler (1931), Paul Samuelson (1915), Herbert A. Simon (1916), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), and Michael Porter (1947). After her are Oliver E. Williamson (1932), Gary Becker (1930), Thorstein Veblen (1857), Kenneth Arrow (1921), James Tobin (1918), and W. Edwards Deming (1900).
1912 - 2006
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 1
1931 - Present
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 2
1915 - 2009
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 3
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 4
1943 - Present
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 5
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 6
1933 - 2012
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 7
1932 - 2020
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 8
1930 - 2014
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 9
1857 - 1929
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 10
1921 - 2017
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 11
1918 - 2002
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 12
1900 - 1993
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 13