Every Tuesday I search the headlines as well as the depths of my own personal life to try and find a soothing story to salve the soul.
Amidst all the turmoil surrounding President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win, this story almost escaped my attention; Elinor Ostrom became the first woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics: From the BBC News website:
Elinor Ostrom has become the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics since it began in 1968.
Ms. Ostrom won the prize with fellow American Oliver Williamson for their separate work in economic governance.
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is the last of the six Nobel prizes announced this year. Since 1980, it has gone to Americans 24 times…BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders said the judges had rewarded work in areas of economics whose practitioners' "hands were clean" of involvement in the global financial crisis.
Congrats are in order to Ms. Ostrom and America in general; we may be in tough times but 24 out of 29 prizes since 1980 is not bad, not bad at all.
