Empirical study of a lot of cases of the tragedy of the commons and an analysis where people found a way to successfully deal with the issue versus cases where they didn’t.
The fact that she actually did study analysed >100 different real world episodes of tragedy was the work that earned her the “nobel prize”.
We are talking about the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” and not one of the Nobel Prizes that were established by Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel didn’t thought that economics was a discipline that needed a prize and his descendants sued over this dispute.
Saying “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” is a bit long so I go for a shorter version and if I would say Sveriges Riksbank Prize nobody would know what I’m talking about. By using the quotes around “nobel prize” I mark that I’m uncomfortable with calling the prize as it were one of the regular nobel prizes but I still have a short phrase that’s recognizable by my audience.
But how do these rules emerge and why?
Empirical study of a lot of cases of the tragedy of the commons and an analysis where people found a way to successfully deal with the issue versus cases where they didn’t.
The fact that she actually did study analysed >100 different real world episodes of tragedy was the work that earned her the “nobel prize”.
Out of curiosity, why the quotes around “nobel prize”?
We are talking about the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” and not one of the Nobel Prizes that were established by Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel didn’t thought that economics was a discipline that needed a prize and his descendants sued over this dispute.
Saying “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” is a bit long so I go for a shorter version and if I would say Sveriges Riksbank Prize nobody would know what I’m talking about. By using the quotes around “nobel prize” I mark that I’m uncomfortable with calling the prize as it were one of the regular nobel prizes but I still have a short phrase that’s recognizable by my audience.
IIRC I’ve seen it referred to as Nobel Memorial Prize, which might be a decent compromise.
If I remember right that’s the Wikipedia consensus compromise solution. I personally prefer the version with quotes I made up myself.