Here's a NYT article that offers an answer as (1) she was a political scientist and (2) she didn't use mathematics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/business/elinor-ostrom-winner-of-nobel-in-economics-dies-at-78.html On 6/12/2012 11:39 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > It's amazing how little the economics profession has honored Ostrom > over the years, even after she won the BS-PESIMOAN (i.e., the Bank of > Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel). Is it > because she was a woman? because she was a political scientist? > because she didn't use mathematics as her main language? because she > leaned toward liberalism? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
