Lobsters, Bees and the Nobel Prize (via Half Pond Bees)

Dr. Ostrom will be visiting Maine this month, and lecturing at the University of Maine in Orono.

Not only am I not an economist, I have neither taken an economics course, nor read an economics textbook.  Nevertheless, I am fascinated by how we decide, collectively, to divide resources. Elinor Ostrom, one of two winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Economics, studies how 'common resource pools' are divided.   We're talking about thin … Read More

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