Comments on: The Guardian on Ostrom http://newschooljournal.com/2009/10/the-guardian-on-ostrom/ A student run economics journal and open blog Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:19:28 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Matthias http://newschooljournal.com/2009/10/the-guardian-on-ostrom/comment-page-1/#comment-5865 Matthias Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:58:26 +0000 http://newschooljournal.com/?p=1118#comment-5865 Ostrom winning the Nobel prize is great and I think she really deserved it. I'm wondering if the Nobel prize for Ostrom is a reaction to the critique that economics is too much concerned with abstract models (e.g. by Dani Rodrik http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2009/03/the-sorry-state-of-macroeconomics.html?cid=6a00d8341c891753ef01156e901a7d970c)? Ostrom winning the Nobel prize is great and I think she really deserved it.

I’m wondering if the Nobel prize for Ostrom is a reaction to the critique that economics is too much concerned with abstract models (e.g. by Dani Rodrik http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2009/03/the-sorry-state-of-macroeconomics.html?cid=6a00d8341c891753ef01156e901a7d970c)?

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