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Shaming and (In)civility: Elinor Ostrom on Challenge of Online Discourse
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyA few days ago, Politics Daily Editor-in-Chief Melinda Henneberger bemoaned the terrible incivility that is endemic to many online discussions. How, she asked, can strangers cheer for the death of an honorable woman they never met? "Assuming we are not becoming a nation of psychopaths, are we trading our humanity for a little negative attention? Do people just not think before they type? Or, even if they don't really mean such meanness, do they not worry that someone who reads it might?" Why is it that across the Web, discussions all too frequently end up in the crapper when comments are ...
First Woman to Win Nobel Prize in Economics
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyNobel prizes are not supposed to be awarded based on gender. Yet, it somehow feels right to acknowledge that a woman won the Nobel Prize in economics for the first time since the award was created in 1969. Her name is Elinor Ostrom and she is a professor of political science at Indiana University at Bloomington. Ostrom, who shared the prize with Oliver Williamson, a professor in the Haas business school at the University of California at Berkeley, was cited for her substantial and influential body of research on the management of common resources. Going against the conventional wisdom that ...
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