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    UC Berkeley Professor Wins Nobel Economics Prize
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    The prize marks the fifth Nobel in economics for the university and the 21st overall in fields including physics, chemistry and literature. "We congratulate Oliver on this well-deserved honor for his groundbreaking work in economics ... He takes his place as the fifth Berkeley economics professor to win the Nobel Prize and further continues the remarkable contributions UC Berkeley has made to this field." Williamson is the author of the economics classic "Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications," and its sequel, "The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting." Full Article at CBS 5
    We congratulate Oliver on this well-deserved honor for his groundbreaking work in economics ... He takes his place as the fifth Berkeley economics professor to win the Nobel Prize and further continues the remarkable contributions UC Berkeley has made to this field.
    SOURCE: CBS 5 1 month ago
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UC Berkeley Professor Wins Nobel Economics Prize
  1. There are many, many people who have struggled mightily and to be chosen for this prize is a great honor ... I'm still a little bit in shock.
    SOURCE: CBS 5 1 month ago
  2. Elinor Ostrom has challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized ... Based on numerous studies of user-managed fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes, and groundwater basins, Ostrom concludes that the outcomes ar...
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