Posted on October 12, 2009 by dakinikat
Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to achieve a Nobel Prize in Economics. She shares this year’s prize with Oliver Williamson. That’s forty years of prizes gone by. Both winners research areas that are somewhat out of the mainstream. Ostrom studies the problem of the commons. Williamson researches governance issues. [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2009 by dakinikat
I woke up this morning to a chill in the air. When I came back home from university today it was a chilly 60 in the house. There’s a frost warning for the North Shore and I had to put the heater back on and pull at the flannels. I walked the dog in a [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2009 by dakinikat
The first time I saw Ireland was when I was a kid. Mostly I remember that it was the greenest shade of green that I’d ever seen. Ireland is one of the most beautiful countries that I have ever visited. It’s easy to see why there are plenty of stories about enchanted things because there [...]
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