Elinor Ostrom

Prize presentation

Watch a video clip of the 2009 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Elinor Ostrom, receiving her Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2009.

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