Oliver Eaton Williamson was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostrom.
Williamson in 2009
Williamson's pipe holder on display at the Nobel Prize Museum
Oliver E. Williamson and Elinor Ostrom at the 2009 Nobel Prize Press Conference.
Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson; she was the first woman to win the prize.
Ostrom in 2009
School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington, where Ostrom taught.
Elinor Ostrom with the other 2009 Nobel laureates