The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2009 were U.S. Osrom Elinor and Oliver E. Williamson.
The jury awarded “their analysis on economic policy and the limits of the enterprise.”
Elinor Osrom, the first woman to receive a Nobel economics, was honored for “her theories about the role of business in conflict resolution and for her analysis of economic transactions that take place not only through the markets, business , associations and families. ”
Osrom born in 1933 in Los Angeles, is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Los Angeles, California and is the founder of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at the University of Arizona.
Oliver Williamson, born in 1932 in Superior, United States, received his doctorate in economics in 1963 at Carnegie Mellon University and carries on Berkeley.
Williamson, was honored for “economic policy, those regarding the role of enterprises as alternative governance structures and its limits.”
The Prize in Economics, who closed the round of awards 2009, will receive ten million Swedish kronor, about 980 thousand euros, and, like other awards, delivered on 10 December, when the anniversary of the death of its founder, Alfred Nobel.
