Elinor Ostrom
1933 – 2012 · United States · Economics
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2009
Showed communities can govern shared resources without markets or states.
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- Mariana Mazzucato
1968 · Economics, Political Economy
Commons governance supports the case for public value beyond market and state.
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