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Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics and the first political scientist to win in economics. Ostrom’s research focuses on “the commons,” the concept of public resources that are owned by EVERYone and not by SOMEone…like our public lands, or even the Internet. Ostrom received the Nobel Prize for her work debunking the notion that a lack of central ownership spoils common resources. Correspondent Amy Spindler sat down with Ostrom to talk about her acclaimed work in her first WFHB studio interview since winning the Nobel Prize. EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live.